Subject: Re: Local Possums
Date: Oct 11 23:41:57 1998
From: "Wallis Bolz" - wallitra at nwrain.com


Wallis is a girl.

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> From: BrewsPad at aol.com
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Local Possums
> Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 7:50 PM
>
> Hello Tweeters:
>
> Following is a note that I wrote to Wallis asking whether or not possums
are
> native to Washington State. He didn't know for sure, so I'm wondering if
> anyone on Tweeters knows.
>
> <<<<<<
> Hello Wallis:
>
> You wrote:
>
> > I see
> > Washington Park Arboretum as critical urban habitat for birds, bats,
> > raccoons, possum,
>
> I'm a web foot Western Washington native, and I don't ever remember
possum
> around here in the 1930s and 1940s. Actually, I didn't start seeing them
> until the 1980s when I was living in Everett and the number of road kills
in
> my residential neighborhood was amazing. They were all over the place.
>
> My question is: Are these guys natives? And if not: How did they get
here?
>
> I'm simply curious, because I never even heard of them around here years
ago.
>
> Jim Brewster
> Kent
> BrewsPad at aol.com