S.O. Sandoval 1952 Journal. 35 Aug 27 Jones Creek, 6 mi NW Bland 8,500 ft, Sandoval Co, New Mexico: beaver are feeding on an open grove on top of the ridge, about 75 yards up a 45° slope. They have felled quite a bit of it up there. They have a well worn path, slippery and muddy. They seem to cut the boughs for in the canyon only for engineering and not for food. A good many nice aspen logs are down in their pond. I noticed chipmunks feeding up tree today. One in particular I watched feeding on pines heads. He would reach up under his paws bend over the stalk and cut off the head, after which he would sit on a rock and watch me. Another had a more acrobate procedure. It would climb up the stem of a stiffer more woody plant until the plant bent over with its weight, whereupon it would cut off the head, and retire to the surface of a large rock couple of feet away to eat and watch me. I was about 15 feet away. Those chipmunks are very tame. Aug 28 Picked up the traps. I saw the trap line last night before bed and took out a shrew. It was alive and kicking, caught by the tail. Bit me about 6 times. This morning there was another shrew 1 micrurus longicaudus and 1 M. montanus. The longicaudus was a young one. I had got it bed in the cook shack, because of Ward's snaring. Jerry had set a couple of mouse traps there near the food boxes. They were