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Engels
1935
Vicinity of Sacramento
Sacramento Co., California
immediately adjacent to it, & I reset in those.
I found more fresh diggings in two spots further
along the ditch between road + orchard & made 2 more
sets. In all three of these diggings, freshly cut
vegetation was found in the burrow mouth.
The third of yesterday's sets (12.7 mi. S Sacramento) was
plugged up & the trap buried. The second set, at the
culvert just north of the crossroad (13.3 mi. S Sacramento)
caught an immature gopher. The subsoil here was red
clay. Yesterday's first set, in the pasture SW the cross
road, was undisturbed, & I picked up the trap.
Sprinkle caught one gopher here. We returned to
Sacramento; looked at my 3 by the orchard on the
way but the sets were undisturbed. We then ran the
traps NE the American river; I caught a sub-adult
& in each of my two sets. I made another
set here, in the horse-pasture - we drove on 0.2
mi. further; in the grass alongside an irrigated
garden I put out three traps. &/10 mi. N American
river we turned west on a short side road. & in a
field of alfalfa + wild oats, where diggings were quite
scarce I put out another trap.
After lunch we ran the traps S
of Sacramento again. Not disturbed-
left them there. Returned to Sacramento,
N of American river - no gophers at
old race-track; took up traps.