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Badger |
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American Badger (Taxidea taxus) (Image courtesy of Bell Museum, Regents of the University of Minnesota) "The badger is an uncommon, permanent resident found throughout most of [California], except in the northwest area. It is most abundant in drier open stages of most shrub, forest, and herbaceous habitats." Caughley 1978, Analysis of vertebrate populations, p 200 John Wiley & Sons cited by California Department of Fish and Game "Furbearing and Nongame Mammal Trapping" ED, April 6, 2001 The Badger is on the California Department of Fish and Game's list of Species of Special Concern "because they have declined or disappeared in large sections of the state, particularly areas west of the Cascade-Sierra Nevada mountain axis and in coastal basins of southern California." Id. "Using a home range of one badger per square mile (the most conservative number), it is estimated that the low range end of the adult badger population is California is 96,362 badgers." Id. |
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