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E.M. Brock
1955
Journal
all found in the tool shed. They were killed and prepared. Brussard lives in Reno, Post Office Box 2525. Peter Brussard and Allen Sutton are two high school boys who like to collect (kill) specimens for study skins. They are employed at the Sagehen Creek Project
Aug 6
A deer mouse was trapped at the Sagehen Creek Project in a live trap. It was a lactating female.
Aug 8
Allen Sutton and Peter Brussard went out along the "Stock trail" road at Sagehen Creek Basin and Peter shot a bat, Myotis volans, while in flight (the bat)
Aug 11
Both Al and Pete (see Aug 3) went out along the Sagehen stock trail road in search of shooting bats. Al shot one Myotis volans in flight with .22 shoot and later, on the way back to camp shot a porcupine
Aug 20
Al and Pete went out in the "front yard" (in front of garage) in the evenings and shot two bats which flew over the Sagehen Camp area. The bats were silvery-haired bats. One bat could not be found that evening but was found the next day with a broken wing hanging upside down at the base of a tree
Aug 21
When Peter Brussard went home he also went to an old mine cave 10 mi SE of