The hill pictured is the home of 1 of only 4 populations of pacific pocket mice left in the world. The FTC-South toll road will fragment the pacific pocket mice's habitat in a most horrible way. Already hemmed in on the north by a residential development (full of the mice's enemy, the domestic cat), the toll road will cut off the pacific pocket mouse's habitat to the south, dooming the population on the hill to probable extinction. The devastating consequences of the toll road cannot be appreciably mitigated with regard to the pacific pocket mouse and the other endangered and threatened species living in the toll road's path.
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The planned FTC-South toll road, if built as planned, will go right through the middle of one of North America's most important "biological hotspots." The FTC-South toll road will destroy a wide swath of truly precious and unique habitat area that is home to a stunning array of flora and fauna, including several endangered and threatened species.
Endangered species in toll road path:
- Southern steelhead trout
- Pacific pocket mouse
- Arroyo southwestern toad
- Southwestern willow flycatcher (bird)
- Least Bell's vireo (bird)
- Riverside fairy shrimp
- Tidewater goby (fish)
Threatened species in toll road path:
Endangered species no longer present
but can be re-introduced:
- California red-legged frog
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