Field notes, v656
Page 307
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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.