The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have released a recovery plan for a rare mouse that is only found in Gulf and Bay counties.
The St. Andrew Beach Mouse has been federally listed as an endangered species since 1998.
The mouse is only found on East Crooked Island in Bay County and the St. Joseph Peninsula in Gulf County.
The mice live in burrows they dig in dunes and their population has been decimated by coastal development.
Now the US Fish and Wildlife Service has a plan to restore the St. Andrew Beach Mouse.
The plan includes restoring the dune systems on public lands, investigating and possibly removing feral cats and hogs which eat the mice, and working to create dune crossovers.
The hope is the plan will increase the population enough that the mouse species can be delisted in the future.
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