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<br /> <br />Table 2 <br />Special-Status Species for the Las Trampas Ridge, Diablo, Tassajara, Hayward, Dublin, Livermore, Newark, Niles, and La <br />Costa Valley 7.5 Minute Quadrangle Maps1 <br />Common <br />Name/Scientific Name <br />Status <br />(Fed/State/ <br />Other)2 <br />Blooming or Survey <br />Period Habitats of Occurrence Potential on <br />Site <br />Status on <br />Site** <br />salt-marsh harvest mouse <br />(Reithrodontomys raviventris) <br />E/E/FP Resident Small, fragmented range in the SF Bay Area. Habitat <br />consists of salt and brackish marshes, where plants <br />provide a dense mat of cover of pickleweed and Atriplex. <br />Needs access to refuge/cover during high tides. <br />No suitable habitat <br />present Presumed absent <br />salt-marsh wandering shrew <br />(Sorex vagrans halicoetes) <br />-/-/SSC Resident <br />Confined to salt marshes found around the southern arm of <br />the SF Bay in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, and <br />Contra Costa counties, from 6 – 9 ft. elevation. Inhabits <br />narrow band of pickleweed marsh. Typically found in <br />“middle-marsh” habitat that is only inundated during high <br />tide. <br />No suitable habitat <br />present Presumed absent <br />American badger <br />(Taxidea taxus) <br />-/-/SSC Resident Shrub, forest, and herbaceous habitats with friable soils to <br />dig burrows. Need open, uncultivated ground. Prey on <br />fossorial mammals. <br />No suitable habitat <br />present Presumed absent <br />San Joaquin kit fox <br />(Vulpes macrotis mutica) E/T/- Resident Annual grasslands or grassy stages with scattered shrubby <br />vegetation. Needs loose soils for burrowing. <br />No suitable habitat <br />present Presumed absent