Gray foxes prefer more specialized environments, like forests and wetlands. ... Adept diggers, foxes will den under low porches, decks and sheds and many return to the same den every year.

It started with GF1. The DNR collared its first gray fox, called GF1, in November of 2023. The GPS data from the healthy, 10-pound male revealed its preferred den sites and hunting grounds over a ...

Gray foxes, unlike red foxes, rarely build underground dens for raising young. ... They may den under buildings, stone walls, dig their own burrows or enlarge ones abandoned by woodchucks.