Field notes, v1414
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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