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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