In Idaho, Uinta ground squirrels are chiefly associated with the state’s southeastern corner. Open meadows, pastures, sagebrush edges, and grassy roadsides near the Wyoming and Utah borders offer the best prospects, rather than the species-rich ground-squirrel country farther west.
Their above-ground season is short. Reports run mainly from March through July, after which many animals enter a long period underground; a lack of late-summer sightings should not be treated as local disappearance.
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