P. PEARSON 1948 28 1:30 p.m., to return Monday. Sept. 11 Mouse traps up the valley caught 4 O[illegible] and 3 & 4 Pero; one I put up. The new super for line (6 traps) caught nothing. In fact, 2 of the traps had been seen for droppings within a yard of them. Caught another skunk up the valley. Picked up these 6 steel traps and put them in the forest looking canyon on the near side west of here. Apparently [Peromyscus] & red raccoon aren't too effective as bait. May try apple tomorrow. Several photos: Briscoe's Harbor from the west looking east; Coyunta Island, grass, and oak on the hill west of P.H. (Pero caught here); looking south or SW showing mostly the east facing slope of our valley about a mile above P.H.; Briscoe's Harbor from west-facing slope above the valley south of P.H.; meadow utility trees & skunks; trunk and trunks and joy. Saw some sort of a fire on a steep north slope about 5 miles east of P.H. It seemed not to have spread 2 hr later. Radio people say there is a hot sulfur spring south near the northeast coast. Sept. 12 - One more fox (in a fisher-baited trap), but again a female. Rebated all steel traps with apple, also put out more mouse specks in the scirpus-typha. Went riding in the jeep this morning to the pine forest on the [illegible] Ranch - Chisty divide; thence down a very dry and barren valley to Laguna. Picture of low red-sand ridge along the south ridge road, looking west. Also 2 photos of mangenta-sawtooth-adenotata-coanathus.