Thacker 1960 Journal p.2 Apr. (date) Antelope Mtn, Lassen Co., Calif. To set traps for gophers on the ranch. We located several large gopher mounds in the pasture across the road from the ranch and made 4 sets. There were lots of birds in the marsh adjacent to the pasture. Marsh hens, red wings, Canada geese, 2 sandhill cranes, cinnamon teal, and pintail. Several ground squirrels were seen in the pasture. We continued on NE (toward Lavendale) to the edge of the valley. Here we spent 3/4 hr. looking in a field without seeing gopher signs. On the way out we next checked our traps and found one where the gopher had escaped from the trap. We drove out to the main road and turned toward Laven-dale. We saw no sign of gophers either driving over or coming back from this valley. Much of this road from the summit down into Willow Creek Valley runs thru Pines (Ponderosa?). On the way back we turned off on the dirt road that goes down to Leavitt in the Honey Lake valley. Although we saw several places where there were open level ground, so too many rocks we failed to see any gopher signs. Only as we came out into the valley just before Leavitt (1/4 mi.) did we first note gopher mounds. These were pretty large and appeared to be T. Townsendi. We noted more along the road as we drove W to Burnsville. Here we turned north again as we had done yesterday. Just before we reached the summit before dropping down to Hidden Valley we saw some mounds in the right of the road. We got out 9 sets here, I about a 'V' pattern