shooting star. Amazingly bright and very long and slow - it seemed to be right in the valley with us. We had dinner with Maria Soares who has returned to work on voles at Hastings. She is interested in how differing resource abundance influences mating systems. January 4 They never cease to amaze. With nearly 50% trap success we got all the woodrats needed for this study in a single trap night. While checking traps, my friend from Cal Poly SLO, Jim Kilber, stopped by. Now a biologist on Fort Hunter Liggett he told us that he commonly sees Tule Elk, coyotes, bobcats, Golden & Bald eagles and they actively manage the