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LID.CROX
1975
March 26
Got at 0730. Cold + darkly cloudy until light
snowfall. Picked up traps. Catch:
microtus townsendi -
Peromyscus maniculatus -
Peromyscus truei -
Reithrodontomy megalotis
Sorex - w2l-2
2 P.m. coll. by Yang &
discussed (from Sarah Totten):
ad. 8+ test. 8x5.5 m.
ad. 4 no end, 2 fully swelling
in 1 low; tip med.; does not
not appear to lactate.
I now did find one of my traps on the slope above camp
in the birch wood a morning earlier with vole attempts 2/1
snow buried > forest. The ice discussed that our water from
on the campfire was frozen, so we melted some snow for
coffee. Then looked through our other 2 trapped sites.
There was snow on the ground + clay edge of the road
to climb Walker. Found all our traps at Kleenex River to
.6 mi. W of the settlement. Catch:
.6 mi. W - microtus californicus - w2l-2+1 found on ground.
(our traps had been disturbed + fields Rv.
individual had been in a trap)
Kleeneck River-
mic. calif - w2l-3, s.y.-1, DTK-4
Reithrodontomy megalotis - w2l-1
It was 1055 when we headed for home. Lots of
microtus inhabited along the road sides between York & Weed
Snowing again -> to an afternoon in Weed. Got gas in Weed
+ crossed Jess. Had lunch near Redding about 1330.
Continued south on Interstate 5. After four mls
N. B Maxwell in Colusa Co. we had a blowout