Utah’s thirteen-lined ground squirrel records are thin, just 2 since 2000, one each from Uintah and Duchesne counties in northeastern Utah. That’s at the western, drier edge of a species whose core range sits across the northern Great Plains and Midwest, so Utah likely represents marginal habitat rather than a stronghold.
Both records date from July, too few to show when this squirrel, which spends the winter dormant, is most active in Utah.
NatureServe ranks it S3, Vulnerable, in Utah, consistent with a species living at the fringe of its range here.
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