Cherokee National Forest holds three times as many gray fox records as Pickett State Park and Pogue Creek Canyon, the only other named site in this dataset. Both sit in Tennessee’s eastern uplands, where forested cover and rocky terrain suit a fox that climbs trees and dens in hollow logs or rock crevices more readily than its canid relatives.
May and June share Tennessee’s highest report count, a stretch that lines up with kits becoming mobile enough for family groups to be seen together near the den. A smaller rise returns in November, closer to when young foxes disperse to find their own territory and turn up in unfamiliar places. Reports thin out in mid and late summer, when adults aren’t moving as widely and are busy provisioning a den instead.
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