Striped skunks turn up widely across Utah, with top-recorded sightings from Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Zion National Park, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Canyonlands, and Dixie National Forest, a spread that tracks the state’s forests, canyons, and wetlands about equally rather than any one habitat type. That fits an omnivore built to forage almost anywhere.
Reports run high nearly all year, peaking in July with 48 records and again in April with 45, likely tracking both spring dispersal and the longer summer evenings when this mostly nocturnal forager is easiest to spot. iNaturalist photos make up roughly two-thirds of Utah’s 339 records, a higher photo share than most Utah mammals get, consistent with a conspicuous, recognizable animal people photograph on sight.
NatureServe ranks the species S5, Secure, in Utah, the least concerning rank on the scale.
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