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Palmer
1935
Itinerary
June 8
Hd. Doggett Cr. 5500 ft., Siskiyou Co.
cont'd. old logs in the conifers caught 9 Peromyscus
maniculatus on rolled outs. Shot 1 Eutamias
townsendii and 1 E. amoenus. Saw 1
Callospermophilus run down from the top
of stump and saw a Sciurus douglasii
in a red fir. Set 3 #1 steel traps in
Apodotnia runways. Shot a Junco in a
clump of small red firs.
In the evening went around traps and
found 1 Clethrionomys mazama in a trap
under a small red fir by a large rotten
log. Set out 15 more gow-size mouse traps
by logs in conifers. Looked at traps on way
back to camp and found another Clethrionomys
mazama in the trap that held the first one.
Traps out tonight = 65 mouse, 4 steel, 4 mole,
1 gopher.
June 9 In 35 gow-size mouse traps along grassy
stream banks in alders caught 1 Microtus sp.
In 43 mouse traps by logs in conifers caught
3 Clethrionomys mazama and 11 Peromyscus
maniculatus. Shot a ? Sciurus douglasii from
a branch about 8 ft. up in a small red fir
and an Olive-sided Flycatcher from the top
of a small white fir. Saw 2 Callospermophilus
in a bare spot on the ridge. Saw 2 Deer.