Behle 1935: Mad River Ford, 2700 ft. Above Ruth, Trinity Co., Calif. May 26 were sprung and showed hair on the vines from mile Traps were baited with prunes and rolled oats. This morning with Dr Grinnell drove to Three Forks of Mad River stopping at Anderson Ranch briefly. Three Forks is 7.6 miles above our camp and 16 miles from Ruth. Trails from here lead to Waterpoint, 7 miles, (6 miles to WaterPoint Ranger Station) to old camp 7 mile and to caves in a southeasterly direction and to Hayden Place, Jones Ridge Trail, 2 miles Creek 1 mile in a southely direction. The main fork of the river comes in from east, a second from the south and the third from the northeast. In general conditions are similar to those surrounding our camp. Near the stream are cottonwoods and willows and farther back the oaks and conifers. Here and there are small grassy meadows. Search reveals no signs of Microtus. They are the wrong kind of meadows with the grass stems far between, the soil sandy & rocky and undoubtedly they dry up in the summer and fall and birds all habitats are the same as around our camp.