Uinta ground squirrel reports follow mountain valleys and meadow country from the Wasatch Back into the western Uintas. The Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest is the strongest named location, with a smaller group in Fishlake National Forest. Great Salt Lake is only a broad reference point, not the wet habitat this burrowing squirrel needs.
Records rise from May through July, a short window when the squirrels are active above ground and mountain roads are open. Sparse reports later in the year don’t establish that they’re absent.
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