Nuttall’s cottontail (nuttallii subspecies) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 9

Special Significance of the Species

Small, cryptic, and crepuscular, Nuttall’s Cottontail is largely unknown to the public and naturalists. Curiously, a recent habitat wildlife atlas for the south Okanagan (Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks 1998) does not mention this species. Nuttall’s Cottontailis not hunted in British Columbia and probably has little commercial significance as an agricultural pest. The subspecies S. n. nuttallii has a very limited range in Canada confined to the southern Okanagan-Similkameen valleys. It is one of several mammalian taxa associated with the intermontane regions of westernNorth America that reach their northern limits in this region of Canada.

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