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Roford
28
Journal
April 23, 1955 Larimer C, Colo.
Very strong wind. Much blowing dust. Took 4 Cypryngs from steel
traps. Office work.
April 24, 1955. Visited colony near Loveland. Talked with James
Cole at Estes Park. Cloudy but not cold.
April 25, 1955 Partly cloudy, mod. wind, not cold. Took up,
traps N. of Wondy, taking 2 aviculae, 4 shot 2 was in area.
Nr. Ft. Collins Colo.
April 26, 1955. Observed Cypryngs on wheat field. Shot two.
Cyanid carcinoma to date. Saw 1 Butto Locule.
April 27, 1955 Albany C, Wyoming.
Visited Cypryngs Lawrence colony near Sheep Mtns., 20 mi.
W. of Laramie, 4. Observed mounds thin with Victor Schaeffer and
John Ritzner. Talked with Richard Heard, Wm. Laycock, and
Alan Beetle, range men of Univ. Wyoming at Laramie. Windy 4
overnight. Light snow near Sheep Mtns.
April 28, 1955 Nr. Ft. Collins Colo.
Dweltight Cypryngs in wheat field. Shot 3. Set 7 steel traps in
wheat field. Cyanid carcinoma. Very windy morning, clear 6 o'clock,
April 29, 1955
Took 2 Cypryngs in steel traps. Spent midday mapping at CPER.
Windy, overcast, but warm. Much dust in air. I saw a Raptor
musculetus at CPER, near fence in open range. Near Nunn saw 2
apparent Sturnia hawks. Lecocerium flowering on near Ft.
Collins.
Ft. Collins & Greeley, Colo.
April 30, 1955. Shot 2 Cypryngs 07:07 near Ft. Collins. Took a baby
Bromypnum marcellitus in live traps set by Chrysotomus buck
in Cypryngs colony area. Spent midday at Greeley, at Colorado-Wyoming
Acad. Sci. meeting. Checked 3 steel traps evening; no catch.