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Koford
114
Cynomys ludovicianus
May 17, 1955
Nr. Ft. Collins, Colo.
shot, 4-6",+sneven. Few or unploughed flat area, but
many foals as well as grasses now growing there. Shot a
♂ for glan. 11 At Spring Canyon Dam colony at 11 a.m.,
I counted 89. One near #9+10 #9, two near fence 50yds.
to W., +2 more farther W. in area N. of fence. Rose in
N W¼ of colony where trapped out. To S. of fence, I
saw 3 or 4 more, two being together in bottom at E. side
colony (m.#25), + two farther to W. Their may be nearly
all that survive. No young seen. All on slopes 1 to 3%.
All well within area trapped earlier this year. No juveniles seen.
## At Wellington presence I set up 8'X8' wire mesh slobene
in ground where many C.L., + main vegetation: Muhlenbergia
[illegible] + [illegible] (about 3" high as if much used). In
general, shrub Atriplex canescens much more heavily used &
less conspicuous than Chrysothamnus. Beyond C.L. to N,
there shrubs 3-4' high, intervening grasses has large
foals (Kochia ssp. [illegible]). I took two photographs of
explorers plot. No other juveniles seen on presence area. Open
in budding line. Some buds eaten off, presumably by C.L.
Saw a cottontail at mouth burrow & a C. 13- livestock enter
another one.
Albany G. ? SE
Wyoming.
May 18, 1955 Driving from Cheyenne NNE toward Torrington,
for 20+ miles went thru rolling green (greener than
Weld G.) shot gross range, mostly run by Warren Live
Stock Co. Old mounds in soil here a Dillida & foals.
Then could be do C.L. mounds long abandoned. Traced
our but bare or mound than on surrounding ground.