Among Adirondack mammals, pygmy shrews hold several records ... Moist forest floors with an accumulation of debris offer optimum habitat, their crumbling logs, trunks, and the soil beneath providing ...

Smoky shrews inhabit many terrestrial communities in the Adirondacks to elevations over 1311 m (4300 ft), e.g., on Whiteface Mountain. Mixed forests with a well developed leaf mold, deep, loose soil, ...

Responding to a lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today published a new critical habitat proposal for one of the most endangered mammals on the ...

This is more true than ever today, as the Mount Lyell shrew’s habitat is increasingly under threat. According to a press release from UC Berkeley, it is listed as a “mammal species of special ...

See About archive blog posts. Chalk one up for the Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed today to review and redesignate habitat crucial to the survival of the ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that it has reduced the critical habitat designation for the endangered Buena Vista Lake Shrew in California to less than half of ...

Hero shrews are difficult to study in their natural habitat. They’re small and skittish, and much of their home range lies within the DRC, which has suffered decades of armed conflict.

to land previously proposed for designation as critical habitat for the endangered Buena Vista Lake shrew. If the proposal is adopted, a total of 5,182 acres would be designated for the shrew. The ...