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Murray
1949
26
Journal
Aug 22 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.
these and collected 1. Caught a Euneces on
one large outcropping and saw another. Culeus
were quite numerous. Pulled off a piece
of exfoliating rock from an outcrop and
found a Myotis evotis in the narrow crack
beneath it. Somewhere on almost every rock
outcrop there was a pile of disintegrated scat,
a few pieces still holding shape which was almost
surely bear. Most were composed entirely of
grasshopper parts, a few with some berry
seeds also. These were 100 to 200 yds from
forested areas. Grasshoppers were exceedingly
thick in the grassy field. Shot a bluebird,
one of several fence posts.
Shifted most of my traps on the hill across
from camp, running through a patch of
Ceanothus cuneatus on a very dry and otherwise
bare slope. Most of them were in fir forest
on top of the ridge and just slightly onto
the north facing slope, the ground was almost
bare here except for a good layer of needles, and
scattered moss covered rocks.
On the way down picked up a Gennhonotus
in an open bracken fern and grass
covered area. By then the sun had gone
behind the ridge.
Left the other 15 traps in place.