Rock squirrels carry NatureServe’s S1 rank in Oklahoma, critically imperiled, the state’s most severe conservation status among the species in this tier, reflecting how narrowly this western species clings to the rocky canyon country around Black Mesa State Park, which alone accounts for 7 of the state’s 39 combined records.
Records scatter thin across five separate months with May and July tied for the peak at 3 sightings each, too sparse a dataset to describe a confident seasonal trend, consistent with a species genuinely on the margin of viability at the eastern edge of its range in Oklahoma’s far panhandle.
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