Nevada records for the gray fox are anchored by Great Basin National Park and Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. They show where people have reported it, not how many animals live there.
The Nevada records bridge the state’s southern desert country and its higher central or northern ranges. That broad spread matters more than any single hotspot. The strongest reporting falls in summer, when Nevada’s high country is easiest to reach but low deserts are hottest. That may shape where observers submit records.
The file combines 68 research-grade iNaturalist records and 91 GBIF records. Those 159 records measure documented encounters, not Nevada’s population size. It’s native to Nevada. Nevada doesn’t specifically list it under the state’s conservation framework, and the IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
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