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A. Good
1980
Journal
Berkeley to Sagehen Field Station, Nevada Co., Calif.
3 Oct.
The Mammalogy class field trip to Sagehen left Berkeley
ca. 1030 and followed the following route: I 80 from
Berkeley E to Truckee, then N on Cal. 89 7.9 mi. to a dirt
road on the left leading to Sagehen. 1.7 mi. along this
dirt road to the station. We arrived at Sagehen ca. 1430.
At ca. 1630 we split into groups of 2 and went out to
set out our traps. Judy Gradwohl + I set out the following
traps between 1630 and 1830: 1.9 mi. W Sagehen - 6 museum
specials along a stream among willows + alders + in a
greasy meadow and 24 museum specials and 1 Victor rat
trap along a transect through the lodgepole pine - white fir-
incense cedar forest at approximate 30 ft. intervals. Kiln
meadow, 0.9 mi W Sagehen - 19 museum specials in
Microtus runways in a large open field. 0.6 mi W Sagehen -
11 museum specials and 2 tomahawk live traps [illegible] and
along the edge of a large pile of rocks. All traps were baited
with mixed peanut-butter and oats.
We then converged on Sagehen, had supper and had
a lecture from Jim Patton on various trap types. Between
2200 and 2330 that night we went out to check our
traps. The temp. that night dropped below freezing though,
it was not that cold when we checked the traps. The moon was
new. The results of this circuit of our trap line [illegible] amounted
to 1 Microtus montanus (JG 3) + 1 Eutamias speciosus
(DAG 244). We reset the traps that had been sprung and
returned to Sagehen where I prepared my chipmunks. We
turned in sometime after midnight.