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M.F.Smith
1976
JOURNAL
Hopland Field Station, Mendocino Co., Calif.
Mar.14 until dinner. Worked in headquarters library in the evening,
Mar.15 Got up at 6:00am. Went out at 6:40am to check traps,
Chaparral in Orchard Pasture
Trap 1 recapture 41 ♂
released
Trap 2 recapture 42 ♀
dead discarded
Trap 4 Microtus
dead discarded
Trap 8 recapture 34 ♂
released
chamise (50%) ceanothus (5%)
Trap 9 P.manic. ♀ 15gm adult released
chamise (60%) ceanothus (5%) rocky gravel
Finished there at 8:30am.
Sunday night was not as cold as the previous two nights. The car windows were wet, but not frosted,
as they had been previously. The moon was full,
although it was obscured by clouds during some of
the night.
D-2 Parasite Pen
Trap 41 Microtus alive
under fallen branches of live oak (Valley Oak)
Trap 45 Microtus dead
base of Valley oak (25cm diameter) dry grass, 20 cm high
some green herbs
Trap 51 P.truei live for tissues
under fallen branches beneath Interior Live Oak at edge
of grove