The Mogollon vole sits at the far northern edge of its range in Utah. It’s a mountain vole of the Southwest, tied to cool, wet meadows and streamside grass in high country, the kind of ground the Uinta Mountains, the Wasatch Range, and Ashley National Forest still hold in an otherwise dry state.
Just 34 reports make up the Utah record, and the monthly pattern is sparse: April holds the most, with a smaller rise in November. That timing may reflect when researchers can reach high meadows and when voles run near the surface, but with so few records it shouldn’t be read too confidently. No county-level breakdown exists for this record, so where in Utah those reports fall can’t be mapped from what’s on file.
NatureServe ranks the species SH in Utah, possibly extirpated, meaning it’s known in the state largely through older records. Whether a breeding population still hangs on in Utah’s mountains is one of the genuine open questions in the state’s small-mammal record.
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