▪ A draft plan, which has yet to be approved by the state, calls for Maine to have 18 core habitats of at least 25 acres each for the rabbits by 2016.
▪ On the local level, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to survey the number of rabbits on town land in an area of Cape Elizabeth to determine which fields there should be maintained as cottontail habitat.
▪ And in Kittery, a botanist has applied for a $100,000 federal grant to implement a similar habitat improvement program on an old farm where a rabbit population has managed to hang on despite development pressures.
| Lemme get this straight: $100K to get the rodent population up? |