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Volume 2, Appendices - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service  Ecosystems of Northern and Central California with Intial Application to ..... northern San Pablo Bay and the Suisun Marsh areas (Owen and Hoffmann 1983). The type ..... Similar to the recovery of the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse, the most important ..... vegetation types and plant species to provide high tide cover.
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Central Valley (California) - Wikipedia  California's Central Valley is a large, flat valley that dominates the geographical center of the ... Older names include "the Great Valley", a name still often seen in scientific ... The following metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas listed from ... California ground squirrels, gophers, mice, hare, rabbits and kangaroo rats,...
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Salt marsh harvest mouse - Wikipedia  The salt marsh harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris), also known as the red-bellied harvest mouse and sometimes called the saltmarsh harvest mouse, is an endangered rodent endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area salt marshes in California.
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J! Archive - Show #4754, aired 2005-04-14  In the "Steel City" of Pittsburgh, the downtown area is known as this .... An endangered California mouse is named for the salt type of this damp...
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California State Route 37 - Wikipedia  State Route 37 (SR 37) is a state highway in the northern part of California that runs 21 miles ... around the highway into a marsh that is home to endangered salt marsh harvest mice, .... Bay and Sacramento areas by offering a more direct route toward Marin, Sonoma and .... "The Damp and Difficult History of Highway 37".
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Halite Mineral | Uses and Properties - Geology.com  Halite is the mineral name for the substance that everyone knows as "salt." Its chemical name is sodium chloride, and a rock composed primarily of halite is known as "rock ... repeated episodes of seawater evaporation occurred in restricted basins. ... Most of the salt produced is crushed and used in the winter on roads to...
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Muskrat - New World Encyclopedia  1 Overview and description; 2 The muskrats' semi-aquatic life; 3 Muskrats and ... along with many other rodents, including most mice and rats, and are part of the ... The muskrat's name comes from the two scent glands, which are found near its tail. They give off a strong "musky" odor, which the muskrat uses to mark its...
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Federal Register :: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants ...  Dec 13, 2005 ... When the Laguna Mountains skipper was listed in 1997, the species was known ... populations were considered small compared to Laguna Mountain populations, with ... Unlike the Quino checkerspot butterfly listed in the same rule, ...... Within these areas, the types of Federal actions or authorized activities...
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QQQQQWM - Friends of the Sea Otter  though there are many groups working at little pieces ofthe problem. ... to protect the California sea otter, thatwe all adore, we must put our major .... the southern sea otter population and habitat to ensure maximum ... allowable by state and federal law. While it has ..... a clam-filled coastal lagoon off Monterey Bay, California.
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Conservation Management Strategy - Clark County  to unite federal, state, and local agencies in coordinated, adaptive ...... its range in the Mojave Desert, including 846,000 acres ...... habitat for the Moapa dace, an endangered species of fish endemic to the Muddy ...... Bonytail chub ...... mountainsides, to the historic mining ghost towns of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Island invasives: eradication and management - IUCN Portals  Monitoring of a population of Galpagos land iguanas (Conolophus .... Eradications of invasive mammals on islands in Mexico: the roles of history and the collaboration ..... Eradication of exotic rodents off six high conservation value Western Australian islands . ...... (Egernia stokesii badia) found on the island is also listed.
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Gila Monster - Enchanted Learning  This slow-moving predator was named for the Gila River Basin in the southwestern United States. ... This lizard can live for months without food; it lives off fat stores in its tail. Its life span is ... It is the only poisonous lizard found in North America.
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And Such Small Deer | Lapham's Quarterly  I measured and marked the planting sites, called in Chink Norris (whose possibly .... The bucks make a strange, Elvis-like curl of their lips when they sense a doe in estrus. Except during the rut, the males and females live in separate groups, ... He eats mice and rats and such small deer, though he would have been of no...
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Voyage of the Beagle: Chapter 7 - Kellscraft Studio  I found in the stomachs of two which I opened the remains of mice, and I one ... This river is also called the Saladillo, and it deserves the name, for the water is brackish. ... We passed through Corunda, which, from the luxuriance of its gardens, was ... into the bed of a muddy estuary, into which floating carcasses were swept.
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PrintEmail | Science Features - U.S. Geological Survey  Dec 5, 2013 ... Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. After yet ... actions that may keep an at-risk species off the endangered species list. ... Northern spotted owl ... Golden Eagle. Panthers. The Florida panther is the last remaining puma...
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Jeopary Questions page 525 - THIS FALL IN ENTERTAINMENT ...  ON THE U.S. MAP: This "Silver State" has a state reptile, the desert tortoise ... OF TODAY: Being a surfer helped this Hawaiian musician "Sleep Through The Static" ... famous for his red-shirted followers, he has an orange fish named for him.
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Rattlesnakes Management Guidelines--UC IPM  UC home and landscape guidelines for control of rattlesnakes. ... is the smallest rattlesnake and is so named because of its peculiar method of ... a more northerly distribution in the inland desert regions of Southern California. ... Venom is produced in glands behind the eyes and then flows through ducts to the hollow fangs.
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Mexican Ridge Nose Rattlesnake - endangered animals - reports  Common: Name: Mexican ridge nose rattlesnake ... Nickname: Snake ... Mortality of newborns is caused by predation, lack of food and freezing. ... In Mexico in the central and southern parts of its range it is found on elevated plateaus. ... Collecting. ... endangered species has helped the new Mexican ridge nosed rattlesnake...
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Identifying California Salamanders - California Herps  This is not a scientific key to identifying salamanders found in California. ... This salamander is commonly seen in moist shaded yards and gardens in ... However, they move in and out of water during the breeding season and at this time the skin will be smooth. ... There are four types of newts which occur in California.
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Rodents - 2 | Britannica.com  Results 1 - 76 of 76 ... All are terrestrial and have gray to brown coats with white or gray underparts, but. ... The Malabar spiny tree mouse (Platacanthomys lasiurus) lives only in the .... southern Canada to northern South... house mouse Mus musculus .... their characteristic accumulation of food and debris on or near their dens.
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Full text of "Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences"  Two adults were captured by cats and one tiny blind snake (1001 ) with a total length ..... A soft mid-body area from poor preservation prevents an accurate body ...... 1966, from Bird Rock, Santa Catalina Island, Los Angeles County, California, ...... to keep the blood sinuses open, thus insuring the free circulation of the blood.