Even his poem titles convey a sense of smallness underneath vastness: "Big Wind," "The Storm," "The Pure Fury," "The Beast," "The Meadow Mouse".
Mice species include Great Basin pocket mouse, northern grasshopper mouse, western harvest mouse, deer mouse, meadow mouse, and creeping vole.
Within 1 2 years of treatment, thirteen-lined ground squirrels and meadow jumping mice, both open-canopy grassland species became established on thinned plots.
In the meadow jumping mice (Zapus hudosnius), the percentage of PDH in the active form dropped from 15% in the heart and 29% in the kidney of euthermic animals to just 1% in animals that had been hibernating for 5 8 days [17].
For a certain sort of Colorado rodent (with, alas, a nose for prime riverfront real estate) the question of whether it is "Preble's meadow jumping mouse" or a boring old meadow jumping mouse may be a matter of life or death: local property developers are on the death side.
The Preble's meadow jumping mouse is a timorous nocturnal beast of the highland prairie, protected from human dominion in Colorado and Wyoming since 1998 by the Federal Endangered Species Act.
Dr. Ramey believes that the mouse got on the protected list based on guesswork and outdated science, and that it is genetically identical to its cousin, the Bear Lodge meadow jumping mouse, which hops in happy abundance in Montana and South Dakota.
The Preble's meadow jumping mouse, protected since 1998 in Colorado and Wyoming under the Federal Endangered Species Act, may be removed from the endangered list as early as next year -- but not because the species has bounced back.
It hosts 239 migratory and resident species, from falcons and elk to the threatened Preble's meadow jumping mouse.
