Diary 11 mi. W and 7mi S. Mitchell, 4800ft, Wheeler Co., Oregon white fir and Douglas fir rather dense with plenty of windfalls. It looks like a good site for Clethromy- omys. Spent til 3:00 P.M. skinning. Went out into the meadow and set 4 gopher traps, caught two. Also found two Bufo and a great number of Hyla tadpoles. No trace of any snakes, probably too cold still. Met a man from Biological survey. He's making a gopher study off, in this neighborhood. He's set off plots and poisoned out the "rodents". Probably why there are so few here. Tells me that beaver have been introduced farther down Clark Marks creek. Some porcupine knowings I had found he attribute to a vagrant beaver. Opposite camp the meadow is terraced, he suggests that these are old beaver dams. This seems plausible. I set out traps, 30, in the space I found this morning, discovered the remains of a porcupine. It had been really skinned and all the bones removed. Out of the dense fir break I sat down and called up a pigmy owl. But it didn't come into sight. I set out 20 traps along Marks creek below camp. June 10, 1938 Last night heard a number of Horned owls, a pair + 1?) The night was very much warmer. In the fir caught three Clethrynomys and down at the creek 1 gaper and 4 peromyscus (3 males, 1 ?) the latter I discarded. Above the creek luisd whistling up the