Salt marsh harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris)
The saltmarsh harvest mouse weighs 8 - 14 g (0.3 - 0.5 oz.). It lives in salt marsh characterized by salt marsh herbs, grasses and reeds. Stems and leaves of salt marsh plants are its major food source. Insects and seeds are also eaten occasionally. It is able to drink salt water, one of the few mammals able to do so. Grass nests are constructed by the saltmarsh harvest mouse. The nests are usually above ground in grass, low shrubs, or small trees. This mouse is mainly nocturnal and is active all year long. It apparently is a good swimmer. Except during the breeding season, it appears to be solitary. Very few of these mice live as long as 1 year in the wild. The saltmarsh harvest mouse has only been known from areas north and south of San Francisco Bay, entirely within the narrow belt of wetlands surrounding the Bay. Its range continues to shrink because of habitat loss due to the draining and filling of wetlands for industrial and suburban development.
The Plum LineGreg Sargent's blog Pelosi’s Office: Conservative Talking Point About $30 Million For Mice Is “Fabrication”
Is there really $30 million in the new stimulus package devoted to saving the salt marsh mouse in Nancy Pelosi’s district?
That’s what some conservatives are now charging, and the claim seems to be gaining some traction with elected GOP officials and conservative media outlets, who are using it to argue that the bill is stuffed with Dem pork.
But there isn’t any such money in the bill. And Pelosi’s office is saying that the claim is a “total fabrication.”
Taxpayer Money and the Salt Marsh Mouse By Cheryl Casone
Are you sitting there wondering what exactly where your tax money is going for stimulus? How do you feel about the Salt Marsh Mouse? Because the mouse is getting some. According to the Washington Times, the San Francisco Bay Area (Nancy Pelosi’s district) is getting thirty million dollars for wetlands restoration. It is a cause she has been behind since the 90’s, and this stimulus package will give her her wish. (for the record Pelosi says she wasn’t involved in the current initiative.)
There is more…..programs for STD’s are back in, there is a smoking prevention earmark, 200 million for a clean-burning power plant in Mattoon, Illinois, and my favorite: 1 billion dollars for admin costs and construction of new office buildings for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration buildings.
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