Koford Cynomys ludovicianus December 30, 1954 Nr. Ft. Collins, Colorado, From C1, trodler out 5 yds. to 3 small spots of leopard soil having very short dry grass & fragments scattered suggesting eddy. 3 sets trodler C1 to C2. From C2, trodler 5 yds. S & return. Apparent middling jaw at exposed 4" high bare cut off shrub (Chrysothamnus?). Other woody stalks roughly cut off. Also from C2, 4 sets trodler halfway to M3, to an exposed tip of small boulder. One set fairly straight C2 to M3. One fairly straight C1 to M3. (One might have used 3 burrows). // low 4" deep snow, trodler alternate (wolf straddle-legged), thus: 0 0 0 0 8 0 2½" <8" -> About 3' east of M3 burrow, apparent gopher hole with fresh soil pushed out. No trodler M3 to fence. // C4 filled with snow; no trodler. M5 same - a wide old-appearing mound. Same at M6. C7 had many trodler, about 10 sets to H8, which had practically no mound, 4 same forby scratched soil at mouth H8. 5 yds. out to 6" drain. Bare soil & dry grass scratched up spot. H8 (C7 -> 2 yds. out. no bare ground. -> C9 snow filled, no trodler; 15 yds. NW, much traveled. Snow beaten down to loose soil. merely Xanthium (commune?) Bare spots showed many burrows [illegible] dug up. Many