Nevada records for the ords kangaroo rat have a limited set of named hotspots, led by Wayne E. Kirch Wildlife Management Area and Valley of Fire State Park with 2 records each. That gap may reflect where people look and report, so it doesn’t prove absence elsewhere.
Most records, though, come from White Pine, Nye, Humboldt, and Elko counties, which puts the Nevada pattern in the valleys of the central and northern Great Basin more than the southern desert. 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.
GBIF holds 178 of the 182 records, and iNaturalist’s 10 research-grade observations add 4 more. Those 182 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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