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Belleve, Blaine Co. Idaho Dec 29,1936
The call was unfamiliar to me and the quality did not seem to be that of the Clarke Coos. We saw tracks of numerous deer, several coyote, many snowshoe rabbit, and one weasel. Several tracks of small mammals were seen. On the return trip we spotted two elk feeding high on the mountain slope on the north side of the valley.
Before leaving the valley the storm, which had been threatening all morning, advanced down the valley and a light snowfall began. We stopped for a few minutes at the deserted Warm Springs Hotel. Here a large flow of hot sulfur water spurts from the rock along a ledge about two hundred feet long just above the river bed. Directly across from the springs I found recent Beaver workings, where they had gnawed two cottonwoods, each almost two feet in diameter, about half through. The river, however was not dammed in the near vicinity.
Set out 8 mouse traps below a rocky point at the head of Slaughterhouse Canyon east of Bellevue. All of these were placed at the base of tuft grass, or near dense thickets of Aspen. I set one steel trap at