Field notes, v1518
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1952 P. PEARSON 3 Sept 8 In my traps in the meadow: 1 chipmunk, 3 Meristria and 1 more zopher. Picked up all and moved comps to 16 mi. NE Pojoaque. This is on the Borrego road in Cordova. Camped in yellow-pine near a meadow. Some fir and spruce, so probably approaching upper edge of transition. Altimeter says 8750 ft. Put out 40 meristria specials along a ditch down the center of the meadow. Meadow is sparse grass + flowers (dry) plus much wild rose about 2 ft tall. Ditch with occasional patches of willow, green grass, and one clump of aspen with rose understory. Some mouse signs. * Sept 9 Traps held 23 Peromyscus, 1 deer, 1 short-tailed Meristria. Later in the day a chipmunk and another shrew. [But shooting at ducks yielded 2 Epternins + 1 Myotis ? vulnus? For daylight saw nothing] Left traps in same locations Sept 10 Traps held 8 Peromyscus, 1 shrew. Light rain in afternoon. That left traps his out and put out 6 Schuyler's for woodrats along a rock outcropping where there were 2 large accumulations of rat droppings. Also porcupine droppings and girdled yellow pines. Sept 11 Traps held 1 Gorey (stork), 2 Meristria longicauda, ? Peromyscus, and 1 zopher. The zopher in the dry ditch in the meadow - sparse grass, annuals, wild rose, willow clumps, aspen further down. Put gore from several of the Schuyler's - Peromyscus?. Picked up the meadow mice and put it along fence row, in fallow field of weeds.