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Kaye - 1933.
French Gulch, 6700 ft., Piute Mts.,
Oct. 28, 1933.
their nests than the poison campaign
wiped them out, or nearly so. They
The meadow and particularly the empty
homes of the neotoma, now being bare
of life, offered a good inducement to
the chipmunks in the hills. So, in
turn, a good many of these moved
down into the meadows, and into the
empty pack rat nests. I have trapped
three chipmunks from the entrances of
pack rat nests, and have seen several
others run into nests. The chipmunks
have taken over the nests as they was,
without improving on them. However,
their are a few neotoma left, as we
have taken three.
According to Mr. Woods there used
to be a good many dipodomy in here
previous to the poisoning. Ray found a
dipos tail this morning, but no fresh
signs. Apparently the poison got
mostly the neotoma and dipos. The
meadows are overrun with gophers
and microtus now.
Trap record: From my meadow
arch trap line I took two marmots,
two chipmunks (nevisianus) and one
gopher. From my west canyon line I