January 1951 2 Journal June 16. Sage Hen Creek, 3 mi. N.W. Hobart Mills, Nevada Co. California. Overmuch are the quietest I ever heard. No owls, no frogs, no crickets, no nothing. Sly, say we have heard coyotes, but we heard more. I set out a dozen museum speckils, and 2 rat traps. June 17. Got 2 Peromyscus maniculatus in the museum speckils. Among the rocks under the pines. The area is very rocky, glacial moraine soils. Many rock piles and slides. Consequently a great many chipmunks and marmots. Bob shot 1 marmot, which he prepared as a skeleton for paleontology. I put up the 2 mice. The rat-traps have been taking chipmunks and golden-mantled ground squirrels, one & even today. They are thick here in the rocks. Bob shot another chipmunk, about a half mile down the road, out of a pine tree. We thought it might be a squirrel. Went to Floriston, about 10 mi. West of Truckee which is known locally as "Porcupine Corner". We arrived about dusk and went out scouting for porcupines. The signs were all around. Hardly a single tree its untouched, and some of them are completely girdled. Although they must be thick in here we again found none. We found one dead on the road, very ripe, and with the skull crushed. We returned to