Indiana meadow-vole records point to grassy, moist cover around Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge, fish and wildlife areas, stream margins, and unmown fields. March and September–October stand out in the records, when changing cover and field activity may expose runways or animals otherwise hidden beneath dense vegetation.
The 45 iNaturalist records are encounters, not a measure of vole abundance. Small mammals are rarely noticed without trapping or a chance predator encounter, and those survey methods are uneven across Indiana, so a sparse public record map should not be read as a sparse population.
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