Nevada records for the ords kangaroo rat have a limited set of named hotspots, led by Valley of Fire State Park. That gap may reflect where people look and report, so it doesn’t prove absence elsewhere.
These sites place the Nevada record pattern firmly in the state’s southern desert country. The protected lands also span springs, canyons, and open basin terrain. The strongest reporting falls in summer, when Nevada’s high country is easiest to reach but low deserts are hottest. That may shape where observers submit records.
The file combines 10 research-grade iNaturalist records and 1,204 GBIF records. Those 1,214 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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