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Erickson
1935
Flembridge and Flemdale
June 2.
No gophers taken in traps left in barrows; which two
young gophers were taken on June 1. Found two fresh
mounds in potato patch and made two sets. Took up
sets made yesterday. Took a mole, #461, and a
gopher, #462, in the same set; gopher dead, mole
alive and had pushed trap into open hole dug to make
set; took four other gophers, one in set made to-day.
Took up all sets. Looked for gopher workings in farm
country west and north of Flembridge. Found some in
pasture land 1/4 mi. south of Loleta. Owner made
eight sets using our traps. Grass, Thistles - two kinds,
small yellow clover, chief forms of plants, last introduced
by owner; soil gray loam, [illegible] not as fine as on
opposite side of river. Made one set in closely grazed
pasture .2 miles west of Loleta, and three in
freshly sprouting hay field .8 miles west of Loleta.
Picked up garter snake on highway 1/4 mile south of Loleta.
Late afternoon, took six gophers, from 4 from 8 sets south of
Loleta, 2 from 3 sets .8 mile west of Loleta; one .2
miles west filled in, reset.
June 3,
#476
#477
Took two gophers and a mole, latter in same set with a gopher,
gopher dead, mole alive; 1/4 mi. south of Loleta. One .2 miles west
of Loleta filled in, other untouched; all taken up. Moved to
Bishop Pine Lodge for night. Hunted White-crows west of Beatrice
in afternoon; some signs of gophers. Great Blue Heron colony near bay.