Cynomys field notes, v1407
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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.