Fulvous harvest mice recorded in New Mexico turn up at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Santa Fe National Forest, and Gila National Forest, a run from the Rio Grande valley into pine country. This mouse favors tall grass elsewhere in its range, so the grassy, wetter edges of these sites are the likely draw.
Only 22 records exist, all from GBIF, and they land in six separate months with no real peak, a pattern that fits a nocturnal mouse people rarely notice rather than one that disappears for most of the year.
NatureServe lists it S1, Critically Imperiled, here, a much shakier standing than its G5, Secure, rank across the wider range farther south and east. New Mexico looks like a thin, fragile edge of occupied ground for this species rather than solid habitat.
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