LIDICKER 1976 Aug. 25 cont. The hotel to pick up my luggage & then took me to the airport. Worked at airport, had a sandwich & then boarded a plane at 1900 for Fairbanks. Beautiful view of the Alaska Range, landed at 1950. Maureen & Gary Wolff met me at the airport. Went to their cabin on the Road Street Rd., & chatted until after 2300 Aug. 26 Gary & I went to Dept. of N. Forestry on University campus, & talked about our Microcosm xanthogathus project & autopsied some vole from his last trip to the tundra area. Also learn we help for the Wickiupson Dam study area to watch the controlled burning of 3 small plots of black spruce forest. Took a number of photographs, & then lots of climbing. Met Keith Van Cleave of the Forest Soils Lab. at the Univ. of Alaska; he was at Berkeley & only Go's working with Arnold Schultz. Drove out & back with Dean Argyle who is forest manager with INE. When we got back to the car we talked with Stan West & Don Pargyly. They have a beautiful colony of M. xanthogathus at a site immediately adjacent to the control burn plots at Wickiupson. They also have Lemmus trimucronatus & a species of Microtus which I cannot identify; it is small & has a quite short stepped tail. This plot trapped 2 yrs. ago instead of M. oeconomus & S. rutilus. In evening Gary & I did some grocery shopping for our food trip tomorrow to Hess Creek. C'd out to bed after a shower at about 2245.