Koford Cynomys ludovicianus July 29, 1953 Wind Gave Nat'l Parks Pak. farba; these conditions favor C.l. In head of draw 300 yds. W. of display sign, perhaps 15 C.l. are seen, including jivs., on 10 % slope. At edges the salary ascends 15% gradual slope & continues at higher level, 4+% slope. I saw a coyote in Baja just W. of Narbeh Dam town at 8:30. Baja gives reason for hunting? Town extends W. 50 yds. Beyond electric lines. Possibly little or no larger than in 1951. Where seen about 5% of veg. in area Baja much of it cut at bare + lying, dry, on ground. I put stone markers around a square, 400' on side, in well populated part of Narbeh Dam town (S.E. corner at Cole pipe stela; oriented N.-S.). At about 10 a.m. I counted 20 C.l. in this area (near 4A). At top of slope to W. of sign in Narbeh Town (300 yds. W.), Lapp. rubenski 40% of veg. 4 to 1' tall (not cut) at same site. Amaranthus graecizans now mostly dead without foliage; its bloom aspect of 2 miles ago gone. A wet buffalos wallow in dam area is now covered with Polygonum aviculare. Dept. 1938 air photo Narbeh town shows area behind sign (W. of) with rectangular marker (of old corral?). Visited tent #3, which had grown much 1947 to 1951. Now seemed about same area as in 1951 (occupied) except no C.l. seen in N.Western (poisoned are?). Many jivs., it seemed, 3 or 4 at soil burrows. This area a shallow basin of gentle slope, mostly < 5% slope, main veg. in Baja with patches Baja again, about 2' tall, with about 5% farba (Asph. occ., Plant. Draco, Nel. hip.) Some mounds large & low; Baja & Baja growing well on peripheral third of mound. Saw one Cistella 13-14-in-tic (sure) going C.l. burrow. Several bison wallow here, & bison trails. On west., Asphodelaceae, Asn., Sol. triifol., Jumk sparse veg. on moss. Then in Abattail. Principal weedpatch about 50 yds. SE of Cole stela ±1 (in 1947 colony); about 60% shot grass, but rest Asphodel, Nel. hip., Plant. spin., Asclep. pinn., Lysimachia, Potentilla, Prunella triflora. Dog area ends at about 15% slope all around, where veg. -155- 205