New Mexico lies near the center of the Mogollon vole’s range, and nearly all 2,165 state records come from GBIF rather than casual photographs. That imbalance fits a rodent that moves beneath dense grass and is usually documented through targeted small-mammal work. The Sandia Mountains, Rio Grande corridor, and Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge span very different elevations, but each can offer pockets of the moist grass or sedge cover the vole uses.
Unlike most New Mexico mammals in this record, the Mogollon vole hasn’t been assigned a NatureServe conservation rank for the state, so its status here rests on the broader USGS record rather than a formal subnational assessment.
Records climb through early summer, peak in July, and rise again in September. That shape may reflect growing-season habitat and survey timing, but it does not show that vole numbers rise and fall in step with the record count.
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