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14 August
10:30pm
n 41°2'16.2" w123°37'37.0"
Hoopa Valley Six Rivers Natl. Forest Humboldt Co.
This morning's trap check
yielded no animals. Not too
surprising given the lack of sign.
They used to be in the area
so I suppose with more effort
we would find them, but
onward, for the time being,
perhaps I will return.
Taking the 101 to the
299 then North on the 96
to the town of Hoopa, we
arrived at about 2:00 p.m.
The search for woodrat houses
was on! The most promising
one was deep in a patch
of blackberry. Hoopa Valley
runs in a North-South
direction with the Trinity
River running down the middle
of it. The site dominated
by coast Redwood, Lithocarpus,
and bigleaf maple. Again, very
little sign but the abundance
of fallen logs and amassed
debris may be masking the
usual house building I'm