H.F. Smith 1977 JOURNAL Mar.27 Bear Valley, Mariposa Co., Calif. the wrong kind of habitat. It was certainly the kind of diverse chaparral where P.calif. would be found in the Coast Ranges of California, We drove back on Hwy 49 to Mariposa, then weston 140 to Hwy 97 and headed south. Stopped for lunch in Madera at ~2:00 p.m. From Fresno we took Hwy 180 east towards Kings Canyon Natl. Park. Went through some grazed areas with rocky canyons and scattered oaks where I might have liked to try setting traps, but all the land was fenced. After Squaw Valley we did border on Natl. Forest land where we had been planning to trap. This was just north of Miramonte, which was a locality & had recorded, but the record was from 1932. There was very little accessible chaparral along Hwy 180 bordering the natl. forest. The road climbed rapidly to ~7,000' at the entrance to Kings Canyon. Above about 4,000' it was mostly pines. We turned around at the park entrance and went back down a steep windy road (Hwy 245) with snow in patches along the sides of the road. Again we rapidly ran out of national forest land and the lower, more chaparral covered areas were fenced and heavily posted. We looked all the way along 245 south to Elderwood, then headed east to Visalia to get onto