Frances A Preck 1941 Neotoma fuscipes May 26 Russian Gulch State Park, Mendocino Co., California, Elev. 150 ft. Female which was nursing young trapped in rat trap on margin of woodland went to meadow. Land level but slopes about 10 feet away down into gulch. Woods thickly overgrown. Trees are red alder, Alnus grandis, Douglas fir, Chinguispin. Bushes mostly at edge are thimble berry, blackberry, small Chinguipin Baccharis. Drainage good. Small wood rat nest about 15 ft from where trap set, small nest 15 inches by 8 inches in Douglas fir about 12 ft up in crotch of branches Further on down hill found three more large wood rat nests. A male was caught half way up the hill south of the ranger's cabin (about 80 ft up) beneath an alder tree under which was a wood rat nest. This area overgrown with alder, Douglas fir, Grand fir under which is tangle of thimble berry & black berry. Slope about 50° - excellent drainage. Pathways going to nest from all directions. Another male caught beneath Douglas fir inside roof between rangers house & ocean - about 1/8 mile from ocean. Slope 60°. Ground overgrown with tangle of thimble berry, poison oak, blackberry, alder. Under this same tree was trapped a chipmunk and 3 mlngurs, the head, and abdominal contents,