Field notes, v1713
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Field Trips 5 miles North West Michaud. Sept. 26-27-1931. Took 10 Boy Scouts to a deserted farm house 5 miles north west of Michaud, Power Co. Sat. P.M. Sept. 26 and stayed over night. From a point 5 miles north west of Pocatello, to American Falls, the O.S.L. Railroad and U.S. Highway cut off a large triangular area Seventeen miles long and from one to five miles wide. The Fourteen River and Am.Falls Reservoir bound it on the north side. This area is a flat sage brush plain. The soil for the most part is white clay but along the river bluff a series of fine sand dunes, only 300 yards wide est[illegible] for and about a mile long are present. We slept the night near these sand dunes. 54 mouse traps were placed on the fine sand dunes. 18 traps on hard clay soil 200 yards from any fine sandy soil.