Subject: Red Fox
Date: May 10 19:25:08 1999
From: Eugene Kridler - ekridler at olympus.net


The Red Fox an introduction here? Not according the H.E. Anthony, FIELD
BOOK OF MAMMALS, Page 139. Cascade Red Fox. Vulpes cascadensis. A
short-tailed mountain fox of the fulva group........Found in "Cascade
Range in Oregon and Washington, and northern Sierra Nevada in
California; northern limit unknown." (Merriam). Food-Birds, small
mammals, principally Mice, small rodents, rabbits, fruits and berries.

If it takes some of the l00 million house cats in this nation that kill
an estimated 1 1/2 -2 billion birds , some estimates run to 3 billion,
annually, more power to it.

Gene Kridler, retired wildlife biologist and administrator