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Salt Marsh Harvest Mousemedia type="custom" key="3680703" By: Cole K.



The Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse weighs about 8-14 grams. It lives about 8-12 months. The average adult grows up to 3 inches. The Harvest mouse lives in dense salt marshes in southern California that has vegetation like pickleweed, gumplant, and fat hen. The mouse main foods are usually seeds, grasses and forbs, and they perfer pickleweed. The harvest mice are very good swimmers and climbers. Because of the red belly it has it`s other common name is the Red Bellied Harvest Mouse. The mouses`s breeding season is in March through November. They give birth to 3-4 babies per litter, usally once a year. The Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse is endangered because of loss of habitat by draining and filling of wetlands for industrial purposes and suburban development. By 1989, 80% of the mouses original habitat had been lost. We can save the harvest mouse by stop draining the wetlands for factorys and houses we people really don`t need. That is what we as humans can do to save the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse from going extinct.