that looked promising. We set a total of 30 traps, but came up empty handed in terms of Lledoma. The houses were of average size - about 3 ft. tall. Perhaps the winter here was particularly harsh - its difficult to say. It would be interesting to resample this site after the summer to see if it gets colonized. Perhaps sites at high elevations experience more 'blinking' out and subsequent recolonization. 29 May Westlake Village Ventura Co. 30 After leaving Mt. Palomar we wanted to try to sample near Julian. Again, we were faced with so much private property that it was impossible to work. We continued on the 79 and south on S1. The public land here was all too high in elevation,