Field notes, v1429
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2.O. Sunday 1952 41. Journal Sept 2. Sandia Pueblo, 6 mi S Bernalillo, 5,500 ft, Sandoval Co, N.M. They arrived late in the afternoon. We drove camp and went to Santa Fe. We spent the night in the brush 1 mile north of Santa Fe. I set 30 mouse traps. Sept 3. 1 mi N Santa Fe, Santa Fe Co, New Mexico. Picked up traps. We moved around getting instructions from various people and finally came up here on this road beyond Truchas. We have set up camp in a valley at 9,200 ft, in Canadian Zone, I think. The trees are some sort of spruce and fir. Thicket forested with an occasional meadow. We are camped along a small stream in somebody's property. But he ain't here. Nobody is there. There is a field of barley and one of potatoes all growing in the middlemen. A good deal of logging is going on here. I lost 45 museum specimens in the fallen logs near here. Sept 4. 6 mi E Truchas, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico Picked up traps. 2 M. longicaudus and 8 P. maniculatus I made skeletons out of 3 of the 4 marmots from Sandia Pueblo. I hunted up on the slopes of the father hill among the fallen logs. Took a shot at a Eutamias (amoerus?) missed. Chipmunks seem to be doing well among their fallen logs. Shot at a Tamiasciurus fremonti in this same region. Minied him. Chickarees are numerous in here. They seem to spend a lot of time on or near the ground in these fallen trees. I didn't