Field notes, v1523
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nov 25 night clear, light frost. my traps held 1 baby Audesomps, 1 Cryzomp, 3 also fantforkins, and 8 also longi. Anita took 42 museum specils, 5 Sherman, and 2 steel traps in brush along stream, collectina, and never desert, caught 2 aulesomps and 6 also longi. bright sun, no wind, warm all day. Packbed my dry traps at 2:30 p.m.: 1 also longi and 1 [illegible] fantorks (both discarded), Anita packed up hers also (2 also design, discarded). Set some steel traps in Cornium/Barberis clumps near camp where somethig has been cutting the Cornium. Nice underground Tunnels in very soft fluffy soil. at 3:30 climbed up into the ridge south of the canyon and walked to a marshy place surrounded by green turf and Barberis bushes, much digging and hole making, then Ralph headed to a prairie dog town. I think they are Rothrockon burrows, some of which have been destroyed by shrews or jokers (John saw a big foot and we found a skinned carcass). Set 5 jump traps in them, plus assorted museum specials. Meanwhile nearly on a somewhat lonely knoll, both John & Carol heard sharpsqueaks or chirps and Carol saw a rot-sized animal without visible ears stick its head out of a hole. Set assorted mousebaer, jump traps, and mouse traps there. Also set some traps also in brush and bunchgron along the edge of the seep and also a line straight across bare, rich, bunchgrass steppe. Then stopped by a rocky promontory with about a dozen cypress trees where some bairdurops are nesting. Anita found some owl pellets under an occupied nest nearby