Great Basin pocket mouse records gather around Utah’s dry basins, even when their location labels name Great Salt Lake or a wildlife refuge. The useful habitat clue is the loose soil and shrubland around those wet places, not marsh or open water. Similar basin ground extends well beyond the best-known reporting sites.
Most reports fall between May and September. Warm nights and seasonal small-mammal surveys can both lift those totals, so quieter months don’t establish absence.
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