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Smiley
1936
July 3 W side Tructee R, 4900 ft, 1/2 mi. W Verdi, Washoe Co., Nev.
Habitats in this vicinity: slope (45°)
extending back from river 30 feet ±
covered with cottonwoods and few yellow
pine; underbrush - wild rose and elderberry -
impenetrable in places due to dead brush;
open grassy meadow with cobbles size of
one's head moved back to the fence line;
some Artemesia here with wild rose.
Yellow pine forest type, trees 20-60 feet
tall; open forest floor with some
Artemesia. A large and a small irrigation
ditch (4 feet and 2 feet wide). Irrigation
cased 40-acre wet meadow northeast
of fish hatchery. Artificial lake 10 acres
in extent 100 yards SW of fish hatchery.
Fields cultivated in grain. Slopes
above valley floor treeless (±), rock-strown,
and with Artemesia.
Thomomys - dryer portions of wet meadow
Peromyscus - cottonwood-pine near river
Mus musculus - Near rock fence and wild rose.
Citellus - Yellow pine at edge of meadow.
Sylvilagus - Yellow pine.
Scapanus - grassy meadow
Eptesicus fuscus - over meadow near cottonwoods,