Journal lush scrub. After we turned NE onto Saline Valley Road Auxiliary, the Joshua tree woodland came back in. Up the slope this changes to pinyon pine woodland with scattered stands of other types of vegetation. The study site is a mesa (about 500 x 600 meters) just W of the road (Hunter Mtn Rd). This site was also trapped in the past by Dixon (3 mi NE Jackson Spring 1917). Our goal are mitochondrial DNA samples from the present population. We set 2 40 trap traplines along the northern flat part of this mesa, another 40 traps along the S edge of the mesa and 20 traps along the road + 20 at camp. These lines will be better described 10 Oct 3 mi NE Jackson Springs, Inyo Co California Got up at dawn to check the traps. The 20 #D trap around camp (a dead end Rd .5 miles W of mesa) produced no captures at all. The 20 traps along the road produced