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M.F. Smith
1976
JOURNAL
Hopland Field Station, Mendocino Co., Calif.
Mar. 13 Finished checking traps at 2:00pm. Ate lunch on
hillside overlooking Valley of the Russian River.
Bright sunny day with light breeze from
At 2:30 started mapping chaparral plot with
graph paper, compass, protractor, 40 meter steel tape.
Finished there at 4:10 pm. Drove back to O-2 to work
on sketch map there. Enlarged scale from Hopland
map since each of 4 sides looks straight. Sketched
in trees; deciduous oaks (Valley Oaks); Black Oak; grass.
Finished there at 5:15pm. Went back to bunkhouse.
Have 3 Peromyscus boylii (Rock Pile 72, 74, 48), 1 fox?
(Rock Pile 76), and 1 Peromyscus truei (Foater Pasture
Creek Bed 87) to Mike Fry to put up for the
museum at Hopland Field Station. Had dinner
and then went to Headquarters building to look
at weather records. Data recorded on following
3 pages for the Headquarters weather station.
Xeroxed data for Headquarters and for Coon Lake+
Orchard (2900') Stations. Went to bed at 10:00pm.
Mar. 14 Up at 5:45 am. Went out at 6:45am to check
traps. Reversed yesterday's order, so started in
chaparral.
Weather dry bulbs
Fri night min. 34°F Sun. night min. 36°F
Sat max 66°F
Sat night min 30°F
Sun max 58°F