Field notes, v1443
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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