Field notes, v503
Page 149
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Lee Arnold 1937 Itinerary Hendry Creek, 4,100 ft., 4 1/2 mi. SE TTTJ Thorough, White Pine Co., Nevada June 23 Yesterday afternoon we left our camp farther up Hendry Creek and packed about seven miles downstream to our present campsite on the spot where the boundary of the Nevada National Forest crosses Hendry Creek. We are camped beneath a large Yellow Pine Tree. This tree is the lowest in elevation of its kind in this vicinity. The flat of the canyon is about 150 yds. wide at this point and the lowland is covered with sage and other low bushes while near the creek is found dense thickets of Willow and Western Birch trees. Last night I set out 70 mouse traps along the side of the hill South of camp. For the most part they were set in low brush with broken, flatly rocks forming the surface. While setting the traps I stopped upon a mound which had been undermined by kangaroo rats. As I caved in the roof a large Dipodomys microps ran from a nearby entrance. In spite of my attempt to catch the animal it reached a nearby hole. In my traps I caught: 5 Neotoma lepida 4 imm♀ 1 imm♂