8.0. Sunday 1952 25 Journal Aug 22 3 mi SW Tres Piedras 9,000 ft Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico of porcupine barking on the small yellow pines. The field ends at the north end of the ridge and then there are pitch scrub oak patches. Dropping down into the valley which runs west (west) across at the north end of "camp ridge", we enter extensive open forests. A good understory of fast high odds, and other plants is here so the mouse trapping should be A-1. The Aspen is mainly on the south side of the valley. On the east is really cut-over pine. As the elevation drops, Thrice Sage comes in particularly on the north slope. Heard a Chipmunk in the rocks along the dry creek bed. 2 chipmunks flew across the valley from dead aspen to an oak patch. I collected a Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel in the grass and sage, near a large Aspen log. It had a green leaf in its mouth some form but I could not find the plant. This animal was the fattest ground squirrel I ever stumped. There must have been "1/4" over the base of the tail and shoulders. I collected a junco, immature, at the edge of the dry creek, which, was quite muddy however. I took a shot at a Mourning Dove in a dead Aspen among the sage but no effect. I hit him with a .38.. He was about 15 feet off the ground. I also put a men out of a little oak, but lost it in the sage.. As the valley drops lower, the