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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