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Whiskeytown National Recreational Area
Mammals
Pacific fisher at Brandy Creek
Photo courtesy of Tim Salles
Pacific fisher (Martes pennanti)
Whiskeytown is home to a wide variety of mammal species. Rare mammals in the park include the Pacific fisher (a federal candidate species), four federal species of concern (long-eared, fringed, and Yuma myotis; and western big-eared bat), and one California species of concern, the pallid bat.

Black bears, coyotes, mountain lions, and fox can all be found in the park along with numerous rodents, rabbits, and insectivores. Bats are perhaps the park's most diverse group of mammals with 13 species documented here. To learn more about Whiskeytown's bats and to see photos of the 2002-2003 bat survey, visit our partner's website at Ball State University(http://home.nps.gov/applications/redirect/?sUrl=http://www.bsu.edu/web/aaduff/).

Download Whiskeytown's Mammal List (pdf, 53K)
Pinnacles bee photo by Keir Morse  

Did You Know?
Pinnacles National Monument has the greatest number of bee species per unit area of any place ever studied. The roughly 400 bee species are mostly solitary; they don't live in hives.

Last Updated: March 21, 2008 at 13:00 EST