Alaska species accounts, part 1, v4403
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Code 1958 Lemmus trimucronatus September Barrow - 1/4 mi S of gas well While the LVT was being gotten out of the ditch, I spent some 45 minutes looking over the ground for fresh lemming signs. I walked 1060 paces slowly examining the ground closely as I marked each pace. About 3/4 of this distance was walked in high cutto patterned ground, much riddled with old excavations, and the other 1/4 in wet meadow of Cambrian terminology, with some vole nests scattered about. At each pace some old sign was evident - lemming, voleway or shuffling but I did not find a single fresh shuffling or a recently used voleway or leeway. In talking with Bob Ferguske about conditions last winter, I learned that he saw lots of sign of lemming activity around the Rec Station after the tundra-ridge sequence in October. This is in the area where I found so many vole nests and so much recent sign. He did say, however, that in late December of each January there was one period