California’s state file contains 140 Yellow-pine Chipmunk records, all from iNaturalist. It ranks 132nd among 243 mammals in this California comparison, placing it in the middle third. That’s a ranking of submitted records, not a count of animals.
The monthly series has records in 11 months and reaches its high point in August, with 29. July follows closely with 27 records. This late-summer rise shows when people documented chipmunks, but it doesn’t prove a seasonal change in population size.
California supplies about 7% of the mapped GBIF records summarized on the national page. NatureServe hasn’t assigned the species a California conservation rank. That unranked status reflects an assessment gap, not evidence that the chipmunk is rare in the state.
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