Tag Archives: salt marsh harvest mouse

Volunteer Spotlight | Meet Isaac Harrington

Meet Isaac, a student from Redwood City. How many times have you volunteered with Save The Bay? Twice Do you have a favorite site? Faber What is the best thing about volunteering with Save The Bay? It is fun to plant native plants and to take out invasive plants. If you could be one Bay [...]

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The Luck of the Bay Saver! Save The Bay Educator and Girl Scouts See Rare, Endangered Mouse

What does a Bay Area resident have to do to find the luck-bringing creature, the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse? For years, I have read the tales of ecologists spotting these tiny creatures in the wee hours of the night and imagined it happening to me. Up until this past Saturday, the only mouse I had [...]

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A Mouse in the House

by Darcie Collins, Ph.D., Habitat Restoration Director $30 million in the stimulus package for a mouse? That was the claim in last Thursday’s Washington Times. GOP officials, arguing the new stimulus package is stuffed with Democratic pork, charged Nancy Pelosi with earmarking $30 million of the $780 billion package to protect the salt marsh harvest [...]

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