Plains spotted skunks carry NatureServe’s S1 rank in Oklahoma, critically imperiled, matching the species’ G3 global rank; this small, agile skunk has declined sharply across its Great Plains range for reasons that remain only partly understood, making Oklahoma’s thin record consistent with a genuine population collapse rather than just an observation gap. All 13 of the state’s records are iNaturalist observations, 12 of them from Le Flore County and one from McCurtain County in the far southeast.
February accounts for 6 of the 13 records and the rest all fall between October and April, too few to show more than a lean toward the cool months.
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