I love to see the stories of that reinforce all the hard work we do as environmentalists. I love the mouse just because it is. It is really nice when one of these little critters returns the favor. It is even cooler when it is something most folks never expected.
Major developments on the Fort Morgan peninsula were spared the waves that washed through other beachfront properties. Developers there were compelled to build farther back from the surf and to take steps to preserve mouse habitat in the primary and secondary dunes.
"Thank God for the beach mouse," said University of South Alabama civil engineering Professor Scott Douglass. "The developers hate that thing but it saved their developments."
