Field notes, v1708
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Villablanca 1992 Largo Vista 21 Oct looks like some of the burrows are inactive (spider webs + litter). This same day set 40 traps @ 1.6 mi S and 1.2 mi E. Largo Vista, Los Angeles ls. 5500 ft. Traps were set at 7:30 - 100m in a loop around signs of activity. Here the vegetation is mostly a mountain chap- parral: flannel bush, Q. crislolopas, Artemisia tridentata, Ceanothus, Eris- ganum, leavertail cactus, Rhames californica + crocea, Sculroak & Cercos- carpus sp. 22 Oct Largo Vista - caught 2 Dipodomys and 4 Peromyscus truei. Some one had been ly and tripped about 1/2 of the traps, as well as smashed 2 (both empty). Phelan - caught 76 Dipodomys panz- mienteneus, 17 Peromyscus manicu- latae & 4 Onychomys torridus (in sherman live traps with millet seed bait)! The dipsos all ran to or through bushes upon release. There were lots of burrows in the open (space between shrubs) but no animals used these. All went through or into cover. Many of