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Palmer
1936
Feb.15 cont'd.
Itinerary
/ mid Summit Mt. Diablo, Brookt. Cont'd.
and ran a line of 44 gopher size mou
traps up a gently sloping open
hillside covered by short green grass.
New saw many gophers and Dipodops
burrows in the rather rocky red soil.
The line ended at The edge of the
chaparral and trees - Adenostoma
fasciculatum, Sambucus glauca,
Artemisia tridentata comprising the
smaller bushes and Umbellaria
californica, and Junerea chrysopye's
and Pinus coulteri the trees.
Set one rat trap by a woodrat nest
under a Calif. Bay tree.
Returned to Berkeley That evening. On
The way back saw two Odocoileus columb
ianus on an open grassy hillside near
The road.
Feb.16. Left Berkeley 8 AM and returned to
the traps set last P.M. The cold wind
of last night was still blowing
upslope (NE) but the heavy fog had
somewhat dispused.
In 43 mousetraps caught # 17
mammals of the following species:
Thomomys bottae, 1 & ; Mus musculus, 1 &
Microtus californicus, 1 & (missing); Peromyscus