as Ensatina so it will be interesting to compare & contrast the biogeographic patterns of these and other vertebrates. The trapping effort will generally be to set out 40 folding Tomahawk traps baited with peanut butter and oats. I have also made 40 black, cloth bags to slide over the traps to attract the woodrats on moonlit nights and to attract fewer predators to the traps when a woodrat has been captured. We arrived here on the West side of the San Jacinto mtns. yesterday evening and set out 30 traps. Unfortunately, the poison oak here is very far behind in blooming out and we didn't recognize it - therefore many of our traps are right in the poison oak! We trapped primarily in three