V Menninger 1941 13 Itinerary May 26, Russian Gulch State Park, Mendocino Co., Cal. elev. 200' and ground cover is scarce because of the deep mud. Plants growing here are tall and seem to be groping for the light. We also caught 1 of Zapus varrius in the marginal-meadow habitat. May 27, Josephine Crowley and I set 23 trap[s] of the Museum Special variety and 5 woodrat traps last evening. Half of the mouse traps were set along an old narrow road [illegible] road thickly overgrown with thimbleberry along the margin. There was one of Peromyscus maniculatus caught there. Traps were spaced at about 30 paces. The road passes through openly spaced Douglas Fir, Bishop Pine and Grand Fir. Three Rat traps were set off the trail in more overgrown habitat. The first, just off the road about 2 yds [illegible] caught a Peromyscus maniculatus. The second was set about 8 yds from a woodrat nest. It was quite a ways off the trail. The nest was the same as the one near which we caught