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phaeler
1958
Journal
p. 5
June 20 Mt. Shasta State Fish Hatchery to Wagon Camp, Siskiyou Co.
We pulled our traps on Lombardie's after collecting
about 12 more gophers. Then packed and left for
Wagon Camp with Ray Hill, son of the hatchery
superintendent. We drove south of the town of
Mt. Shasta about 4 miles, and turned east at the lumber
mill on the road toward McCloud. After driving about
7 miles on a fairly good dirt road we turned north
at a fork of the road and drove up it about 1/2 mile
to Wagon Camp. Wagon Camp is a long, narrow
meadow with numerous small streams flowing
through it. One large stream has cut a deep
gully (about 6' deep in most places). The entire
area abounds in springs. There appeared to
have been much marking of the meadow
this spring. All the gophers in the meadow
must have been marked. The only places where
we found recent signs were in higher places
along the edge of the meadow. We have been told
that this was a "wet" year and this may account
for the heavy marking of the meadow. There are
still many snow drifts in the surrounding woods.
In one place where it was protected by a fallen
tree the snow was still about 4 feet deep. The sur-
rounding area was covered by brush and second
growth spruce and Doug fir (?).
After lunch we set some gopher traps but recent
markings were hard to find. I also set about 50