Talk:List of mammals of Oregon

Formatting
Anyone else interested in working on this, please touch base with me. THe lists from other states are all done in different ways, so trying to decide on the best to adopt as a template... &mdash; Gaff ταλκ 00:02, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * List of mammals of Florida is a featured list. &mdash; Gaff  ταλκ 00:08, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

State and Fed Endangered list(s)
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/wildlife/diversity/species/threatened_endangered_candidate_list.asp Updated October, 2014 &mdash; Gaff ταλκ 00:02, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Missing images list
Running list. Please keep an eye out.
 * Myotis melanorhinus
 * Microtus montanus
 * Microtus oregoni
 * Microtus richardsoni
 * Neotoma lepida
 * Arborimus albipes
 * Microtus canicaudus
 * Peromyscus boylii
 * Lemmiscus curtatus
 * Peromyscus crinitus
 * Phenacomys intermedius
 * Dipodomys californicus
 * Merriam's ground squirrel
 * Dark kangaroo mouse
 * Great Basin pocket mouse

Caribou
The wild caribou living closest to Oregon in 2014 seem to be in the Selkirk Mountains of northeastern Washington, northwestern Idaho, and British Columbia. Here is a link to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife article about the caribou.

"Recently extirpated" in the Oregon list should be quantified for clarity. How recently? Someone is sure to ask if caribou ever lived in the part of the world that eventually became Oregon. Reindeer, says "During the late Pleistocene era, reindeer were found as far south as Nevada and Tennessee in North America, and as far south as Spain in Europe." The reliable source supporting this claim is Walker's Mammals of the World, Vol. 2 (6th ed.), according to Wikipedia. I can't easily verify that, but it should be verifiable. If those caribou lived as far south as Nevada, they were probably in Oregon too. However, Pleistocene is not what most readers would think of as recent. Geologists might disagree. Would it be good to change "recently extirpated" to "extirpated in the 19th, 20th, or 21st century" or something like that? Then caribou could be safely deleted from the Oregon list. Finetooth (talk) 17:56, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * These are all good points . Caribou are listed on the List of Mammals from the American Mammology Society, but not in the text by Verts & Carraway.  There are a few other (not so minor) problems with the AMS list and I think it is unreliable.  For example, the Douglas Squirrel is not on there.  I think that to get around questions about definition of "recently" we should stick to the list from Verts/Carraway as "definitive".  It includes grizzlies and mentions when the last documented specimen was taken (1931 -- a date that is not concordant with some other reports out there on the web, but I think we should cite it).  Deviation from Verts/Caraway list could be made if needed for rare exceptions, while avoiding WP:NOR concerns.  Hence, I propose we take Caribou off the list.  This book makes mention of them in prehistory: PREHISTORY OF THE OREGON COAST: THE EFFECTS OF EXCAVATION...By R Lee Lyman  I'm not sure then to do about the sea mammals, but we can tackle that later. &mdash; Gaff  ταλκ 19:34, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. I removed the caribou. I'll try to help in other ways, if I can. Finetooth (talk) 01:58, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

more rodents (VertsCarraway)

 * Thomomys bottae
 * Thomomys bulbivorous
 * Thomomys mazama
 * Thomomys talpoides
 * Thomomys townsendii

Dipodidae
 * Zapus princeps
 * Zapus trinotatus

not in Verts: not done: muridae, scuridae

Ring-tailed Cat
Where's Bassariscus astutus? My family and I saw one once in Josephine County. 184.96.23.188 (talk) 00:41, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

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