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| Salt Marsh Harvest
Mouse (SMHM)
Where was one SMHM found in 1982? ----> Trap lines rodent blow-up ---> |
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| Mention Canalways
to someone who know a little bit about wetlands and endangered species
ant they are likely to respond that, "Canalways is an endangered
species habitat. The salt marsh mouse lives there."
Here are the facts upon which that reply has been based. Trappings to determine whether the salt marsh harvest mouse lives at Canalways were last done in 1982. Fred Boti for the California Department of Fish and Game concluded his April 1982 report on the 300 trapping days and nights by writing: "The trapping effort totaled 300 trap nights and yielded no endangered salt marsh harvest nice..... "Even though the salt marsh harvest mouse is an endangered species end a negative trapping effort does not definitely prove its absence from an area, it is my feeling that the salt marsh harvest mouse does not occur on the parcel in question. The habitat does not appear to provide adequate cover and competition from the western harvest mice probably reduces the attractiveness of the area to salt marsh harvest mice." Click here or to the right for full text of Boti letter Someone called for another study so Dr. Shellhammer of Harvey and Stanley Associates did another 525 trapping days and nights in September of 1982. That resulted in one salt marsh harvest mouse (SMHM) found and another that had the 'gestalt' of a SMHM but several body characteristics different from a SMHM. Click the 1982 Rodent Trappings report to the left. |
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