Nevada records for the mountain lion are anchored by Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument and Ruby Mountains. They show where people have reported it, not how many animals live there.
The Nevada records bridge the state’s southern desert country and its higher central or northern ranges. That broad spread matters more than any single hotspot. The strongest reporting falls in Nevada’s cooler months, when desert travel is easier. That’s a record pattern, not proof that the animal is more numerous then.
The file combines 108 research-grade iNaturalist records and 115 GBIF records. Those 223 records measure documented encounters, not Nevada’s population size. It’s native to Nevada. Nevada doesn’t specifically list it under the state’s conservation framework, and the IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
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