This may mean 10 or more traps in a relatively tight cluster. Traps shall be baited with a mixture of food items such as crimped oats, wild bird seed, apples, walnuts, and peanut butter, provided that the peanut butter does not act as an ant attractant. Traps shall be opened and baited in late afternoon and checked approximately 2-4 hours after sunset and again at dawn. Traps may be checked once again during the night. No intervals between checks of any traps shall exceed 6 hours.
Traps are to be closed after they are checked at dawn.
To maximize the possibility of determining whether sign is from a Morro Bay kangaroo rat or other small mammal species, particularly where active burrows are found, other techniques, such as tracking boards, are recommended to be used simultaneously with trapping activities. Each captured Morro Bay kangaroo rat shall be removed from the wild for placement in the captive breeding facility at the University of California, Berkeley, California, unless otherwise authorized by the Service. If presence has not been established during the first survey, a second visual survey shall be conducted the following calendar year. If no sign is found after 2 visual surveys, live trapping shall be conducted after the second visual survey to provide further assurance of the status of the species on the site. Ninth Street, Sacramento, California 95814, within 30 days of completion of each survey period.