Reports and Studies 2014 Review: 1975 Environment of Kiawah Report | Page 12

Summary & Analysis of the 1975 Kiawah Environmental Report 

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MAMMALS
The 1975 Environmental Report
The purposes of the 1975 study of mammals (titled "Mammalology") were:
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• For much more current information on mammals at Kiawah, see
to inventory mammalian species on Kiawah by habitat.
www.wildlifeatkiawah.com/
to identify potential effects of development on mammals.
to identify and quantify mammals likely to present management problems in
the future.

Their approach to the study of mammals was first to evaluate the historical records
from 1664 to 1965. They also made surveys and observations amounting to 79 field
days and 12 nights across five main habitat types. These included:
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Observations of mammals and mammal signs
Mouse and rat snap traps; Sherman live traps
Mole traps
Cage traps
Mist nets
Shooting

The results of the 1975 study included the following:
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There were 5996 trapnights with 296 mammals captured.
The highest trapping success for small mammals was in the Vanderhorst mansion and an old field near Cougar Island.
There were hundreds of observations of deer, hogs, raccoon, opossum, Eastern
mole, gray squirrel, and rabbits (marsh and cottontail).
The most abundant mammals trapped, by habitat, were
· Dunes: house mouse, cotton rat, raccoon, least shrew, and opossum.
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Pine-palmetto-oak woodlands: cotton mice, opossum, raccoon, least shrew,
wood rat.
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Dykes and cheniers: rice rat, least shrew, cotton rat, cotton mouse. (Ed Note:
A chenier is a "sandy or shelly beach ridge.")

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