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Transcription
1963
Journal
14 June samples and a juvenile for the colony. Voth Creek is flowing very fast. The day is mild, a few clouds and practically no wind in the morning. The wind picked up in the afternoon and died again in the evening. After lunch Hank, Steve and I went to collect lemmings at Brest Point. Large patches of snow are still present. After passing Beach Ridge, the area was intermittently very wet to moist. Phlebopods abound in this area, of course, but no lemmings. We crossed over to central marsh and went to a high spot near some old bird plots. Here we caught 8 lemmings in less than an hour. We returned home a little after 1500. They dropped me off to check the line traps for the second time today. Earlier this morning I caught two but one was dead. One more was taken in the afternoon. Very few juveniles are being taken, mostly subadults and adults. When I returned I set the new animals on the back porch and went to dinner. After dinner I wrote notes and checked the line traps once more.
15 June Barrow, Alaska
After breakfast I checked the lemming colony and removed one dead lemming. Pitelka and I talked over the things to do and what [illegible]