ZIBBLE D.D. 1987 Journal 33 Hastings Natural History Reservation, Monterey Co., Calif. Sept. 30 Spent the morning cleaning up the cabin. 1400hrs - out setting traps on Grid MC-1. It's bone dry up in the canyon, the buckeyes have lost their leaves (due to heat), poison oak leaves have mostly turned & dropped, some valley oak leaves are dropping, and acorns are fairly abundant on the ground and in the litter. I numbered the drift fence on the west side # W-1 through W-14, with the odd nos. above the holes in the fence and the even nos between holes. Thus, 5m between numbers (or stations). I set out traps only in the holes, 14 traps total. I pulled non-folding Shermans off the grid for these. On the east-side fence, I numbered stations E-1 through E-12, exactly like the west-side fence, and put non-folding Shermans in the holes. Finished setting traps on the rest of the grid by 1830hrs (PST, daylight savings). Total of 93 trap stations set (80 on grid, 13 on drift fences), and used totalling 186 traps. Used 84 folding Shermans, and 102 non-folding. Today was hot (mid-90s), mostly clear, and slightly breezy. The face flies are terrible! The sun sets around 1900hrs and it is dark by 1945hrs. Oct. 1 0730h - checking traps on MC-1. It's calm, clear, FOG. Got up a little late this morning - should be out by 0700hrs. Finished checking all traps by 0930h. Face-flies were so bad I opted for taking all R. californicus back to lab to collect samples. Note that the first animal (P.boylii #02010) was released on wrong side of fence. I closed all traps on drift fence, but left most of traps on grid open.