Wisconsin’s 23 records fit open, prey-rich settings such as Horicon’s marsh margins, Kettle Moraine fields, and southern prairie remnants, but they are too thin to define a reliable seasonal pattern. Scattered detections across winter and the growing season are consistent with a year-round resident that is usually concealed in dense ground cover or small-mammal burrows.
Only 14 records come from iNaturalist, and these are encounters rather than a Least Weasel abundance estimate. Incidental trapping, predator remains, snow tracks, and rare chance sightings dominate detection, making observer method far more visible in the map than the underlying population.
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