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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.
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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.