PEARSON 1951-1952 Stevenson's operations Saw no trees during this period - misty cloudy. Jan 14 One tree in my 15 traps (caught by tool) and 4 spring, one of these (at station 2) with fur + gore. At 8 found only one new digging and by lunch time only about 4. Maybe the snow, which was gone by 8:00, or my disturbance setting traps yesterday kept them from working. The 2 closest at my watching rocks didn't work either, but various others did. A fox visited various diggings on the census area, white-tailed hawk nearby. Shot 4 [illegible] on the census area in the morning and at noon dug out a burrow system occupied by locking of 3511, juvenile 3512, and one other fur. of same size but not collected yet. Found no nest, only one collection of moldy droppings and another mixture of droppings and recently gathered grass, leaves etc. As before not many bifurcations, nowhere deeper than 15. At 6:30 while I was crowing checked my traps; they were untouched. Noticed that the snow was staying on the census area and most everywhere else, but that on the hill to the left of the center [illegible] area it was melting as fast as it fell, leaving a muddy stew. The soil here is clayey and this area is intermixed by trees - The light [illegible] sandy gravel