S.O. Landry 1952 Journal 36 Aug 28 Jemez Creek, 6 mi NW Bland, 8500 ft, Sandoval Co, New Mexico within reach of my bed, as every time they went off, I turned on the flashlight, reached over, killed the mice and re-set the trap. Mice are almost never killed out right by a mouse trap. They are paralyzed in the hind legs, and pinned there until's cold or starvation finishes them off. If only the hard-hearted people knew this! The total score was 5 and doubtless would have been more had I stayed awake to keep re-setting them. I put up my catch + 2 chipmunks held over from yesterday. A good number of fishermen were in here today so me had to hold down the shooting. I took off up the high ridge north of camp. This is a steep climb. The slope is 45° or better into Doug. fir needle and soft loose rocks underfoot. Once out of the camp of this creek the spruce disappears and it is all Doug-fir and aspen about 100 feet up. This is what the classics would call "a local reversal of life zones due to cold air draining along the creek bottom." Over the ridge on the other side I found an open south-facing slope with a few yellow pines and a little of the scrubby oak growth of Tres Piedras. There are scattered yellow pines all over these hills, most of these big ones minus strongly suggests to me that these hills were once yellow pine. I saw 2 Purr-et-Backed Doves on the ridge in dense Douglas fir. Chickadees were numerous