Several reports, but no specimens, of the badger have been obtained. In
1935, C.W. Quaintance wrote that in School Section Canyon tracks of
cougar, bobcat, coyote, and deer were found, and that pocket gophers,
badgers, and cottontail rabbits were present. Later in 1935, H.P. Pratt
wrote that he had found evidence of badgers "at the lower well in Prater
Canyon, where on September 23, there were extensive badger diggings and
fresh tracks in the vicinity of the prairie dog colony there." Badgers
are common in the lowlands around the Mesa and they are common enough on
the Mesa to be regarded as nuisances by archeologists on account of
badgers digging in ruins. Badgers have been seen from three to six times
each year from 1950 to this date, most of them in the vicinity of the
North Rim.