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July 12
Didn't run Calhoun traps in PM yesterday.
at 9 a.m., there were 4 Beithros (clear worms).
3 of the 4 had hemorrhagic lungs, accompanied by
Ortys. Didn't run in PM.
July 13
Clear + Warm. at 8:30 checked up traps; nothing
in them. A few with pellets or ants.
Aug. 5
1 1/2 mi E. Mendocino, Mendocino Co., Calif. Put out
38 Sherman (rolled oats) with Pitella at 4 pm. Sunny.
9 in scrubby pygmy forest (l. contorta etc.), some in a saw-
gress + ferny glade in spades reduced- fir-bamboo forest, the
rest along a foot through similar forest.
Aug. 6
at 8 a.m. (sun coming through light fog) traps held
one clifflumulus (townsendi?) and 5 shrews; no dormice! One shrew (Pocifins) dead, one dying, and one alive; two
Townbridge's alive. One more Townbridge's at 11:30 am and
2 more clifflumulus before 4 pm. Checked up traps at 4
pm. Sunny all day.
Aug 18
3 mi N. Fort Ross, Sonoma Co. Set 46 Shermans
with rolled oats at 6 pm, mostly in saw grass along
a tiny creek but some an irrigated meadow where there
was microtus signs. At 8:30 p.m. one Sorex vagrans
died. (Foggy). Ran traps at midnight, 4 a.m., and 7 am.
Released 2 Beithros, 3 Pero mouse, and about 5 Microtius.
Foggy all time.
Aug. 23
Put 24 Shermans in Orida Pasture at 7 pm. Some sign
of microtus but not a lot.