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Koford, Rolf
1975
Journal
White Cloud campground, 11 miles east of Nevada City, Nevada Co. Calif. ~4300 ft.
4 Jan. most being hundreds of meters long. There were
also a few dug holes, but no sign of cone scales
or cores. Several incense cedars (small) and Ponderosa
Pines had flakes of bark strewn below them, perhaps
due to the squirrels. No deer tracks were seen.
The 35 minutes I spent walking through lower, more
mixed and open forest yielded 11 tracks. I returned
to the campground area (White Cloud) at 1625 and
looked for squirrels until 1650 when it got too dark.
It had snowed about 1 cm last night, making tracking
conditions good. Hence, all tracks seen today, both at
the study site and near Steephollow Cr., were tracks
made today. This morning I saw tracks in the
central part of what used to be squirrel CE's territory,
around C2, in the northeast part of what used to
be squirrel E's territory - midway between D1 and
D6, and around stake H2. Three more sets
of tracks were seen in the campground. One
dug hole was found near stake D1, but no cores
or cone scales were found nearby. Around noon
I took some pictures, but had to search quite
a while to find a set of tracks that wasn't
obliterated by the constant drip of melting snow.
It snowed a little last night and snowed lightly
from 0700 until 0720, then harder from 0740 until
0830. Temp. was 32°F. It warmed up during the
day and was drippy all day. It remained