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there have been instances where WS personnel have found gates left open. Additionally, WS equipment has been tampered with, including occurrences of traps being closed or with bait missing that can be attributed to tampering by humans or animals. • Recommendations WS has recommended (1) extending fencing from the gates down into the water to exclude trespassers and dogs and (2) more generally, improving fencing to limit access to the site. Recovery Plan. Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse and California Clapper Rail Recovery Plan. 1984. The Tidal Marsh Ecosystem Recovery Plan, which is under development, will supersede the 1984 plan. The 1984 recovery plan focused on restoration and enhancement of salt marsh habitat to benefit the rail. The plan identifies Inner Bair Island and parts of neighboring Middle and Outer Bair islands as a "Priority 1" area for restoration as habitat essential to the survival and recovery of the clapper rail (Recovery Task 1224). "Priority 1" actions "must be completed to avert an irreversible population decline or extinction of the species" (Medlin /USFWS, 1996). Bair Island is to be protected in perpetuity as part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. In March 1999, the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), through private fund- raising, together with federal and state funds already in place, purchased 1,626 acres of Bair Island, which means that the entire 3,200 acre island can become protected habitat (POST, 1999). References: Bias, M.A. 2001. "Conservation and ecology of the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse," in Valley /Bay Habitats. Fall. Produced by Ducks Unlimited, Inc., Western Regional Office. On line at www.caducks.org/Habitats%20FaH%202001.pdf. California Department of Fish and Game, Habitat Conservation Planning Branch. 2000. The Status of Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Animals and Plants in California, Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse. On line at http: / /dfg.ca.gov /hcpb California Department of Fish and Game, California Interagency Wildlife Task Group. Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse. Online athttp://dfg.ca.gov/whdab/htn-A/Mll4.huril. California Department of Water Resources Interagency Ecological Program. Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse in Wildlife of the Suisun Marsh. On -line at http: / /iep.water.ca.gov. LSA Associates, Inc. 2004. "Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse," in Solano HCP/NCCP, Solano County Water Agency, Species Descriptions. March. Peninsula Open Space Trust. 1999. Bair Island: You Did It! in Landscapes. Summer. Rendon, Jim. 1999. "Mouse Pad, The salt marsh harvest mouse holds onto its habitat for dear life," on line at www.metroactive.com /papers/ metro /11 .24.99 /cover /species6- 9947.html. Shellhammer, Howard. 1998. "A Marsh is a Marsh is a Marsh... But not Always to a Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse." Tideline, Vol. 18, No. 4 1 -3, online at http://desfbay.fws.gov/Archives/Salty/salty.htm. 14