The hairy-tailed mole favors cooler, better-drained ground than Ohio’s more common eastern mole, which is why its 229 records lean toward the state’s hillier, forested terrain around places like Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Wayne National Forest rather than the flat farmland where the eastern mole thrives.
Records build to a June high point, later in the year than the eastern mole’s spring peak, and taper off through fall and winter. Like its relative, this species is almost never seen alive, so most reports likely trace back to fresh digging or a chance encounter with surface soil rather than a direct sighting. Ohio hasn’t assigned it a numeric NatureServe rank (SNR, unranked).
