Richardson 1937 SE End Warner Valley June 1, 1937 (cont.) Residents say that this is an exceptional year in having much water in Warner Valley. As it is, it seems to be an ideal breeding territory for ducks, geese, cranes etc. The abundant water may well have made possible the great number and variety of pogejines etc. with increased vegetation and insect life. If numbers of water birds have not been able to breed here in previous years, the above may be evidence of their quickness to take advantage of conditions approaching optimum rather than trying to breed in the same region every year. A line of 30 mouse traps was set out last night in a sagebrush region just east of the north of 20 mile C., next to the hills. Soil - rather hard - a bit sandier on the flatter ground and next to the rocks - in which places burrows were more in evidence. Catol-7 nice - Peromyscus, Perognathus farms, and Dipodomys ordii (maniculatus). All were caught on the lower flatter, slightly sandier area - evidence, probably that small soil differences determine distribution of rodents.