Field notes, v4215
Page 127
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Chris and I to two locations for woodrat trapping. The number of houses is fairly low so we only found 8 good trap stations - two or three traps were set at each. The 3 of us returned to the Bechtel house for dinner and had great discussions about everything from great books to how to answer the question "what will your research do for the world?" - it was a late night! This morning we went out and checked all the traps and caught two juvenile-subadult mates at the southeast corner of Horse Hill. Both specimens (MDM 368+369) were very high in fleas and tiny ticks. MDM 368 was captured at a typical house at the base of a Quercus while 369 was captured in the crotch of a hollowed out oak. There were no houses in this free