1998 W.D. Matocq Journal 13 August Ruth Lake Humboldt Co. 10:30pm Got up this morning, had breakfast and checked traps. Out of 20 traps we found 2 females. One was near the campground, the other on the opposite hillside of the creek from the campground. Both were doubtably houses. The one near the campground was, again, just a few sticks at the base of a redwoods, perhaps a more complex house was in the trunk or root system. The other animals was caught in an area under redwood and tanbark oak. Lithocarpus appears to be important to Neotoma especially when other oaks aren't available. The Michigan Bluff site was similar in its amount of tan bark oak, except there the acorns were just maturing. This site is dominated by coast redwood, madrone, douglas fir, and tan bark oak. The understory