Western meadow vole records in Minnesota cluster around Itasca State Park, at the Mississippi’s headwaters, and along Lake Superior’s North Shore and Superior National Forest farther east, all northern sites. All 197 records come from iNaturalist alone, with no GBIF specimen data behind them.
Reports peak in February and April, an unusual winter-into-spring pattern for a small rodent, possibly reflecting when tracks and burrow activity in snow first draw notice. NatureServe has not yet assigned the species a Minnesota rank, and the recent split of some Microtus populations into this taxon may be part of why.
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