Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4402
Page 249
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Cade 1957 General Account 4 June we had been correctly interpreting the reign or lack of reign at Barrow. The snow was gone off the high centers but was still present in the drainage ditches, all around the edges of the melting snow where- where we walked saw a course of ca half a mile fresh runway and bright queen droppings were seen. The runways frequently went into conspicuous holes under the snow. We found two winter nests. We did not see a live lemming but during the two hours we were at the village half a dozen kids brought in a total of 31 animals. This is again in strong contrast to the situation at Barrow where we have been able to obtain less than 20 from the kids in more than a week's time. We will certainly want to keep tabs on this area all summer. It will be worth finding out whether some predators attempt to breed in this area this year. At present it does not look like Wainwright is "in please" with Barrow. We returned to Barrow via the same route. Visibility not so good but good enough to see jagers.