Field notes, v542
Page 117
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Berkeley, JT 1942 31 Itinerary Mar. 31 A party of three, Mrs. Joseph Grinnell, Miss Viola Memmler, and myself I left the Berkeley campus at 7:15 AM, traveling with all equip- ment in Mrs. Grinnell's Ford V8 sedan. We left the Eastbay, driving south over Highway No. 17 to San Jose, thence over No. 101 to a point about 2 miles below Morgan Hill where a good paved road cuts south and into Highway No. 152. We proceeded over this thru the Hecker Pass country and then over No. 152 to Watsonville, arriving at 10:30 AM. Speedometer of car recorded a distance of 91 miles from Berkeley. The skies were clear when we left Berkeley, but clouded as we traveled south. We found Mr. A.C. Hawbecker in his office at the Soil Conservation Service in the post office building. Hawbecker is Asst. Soil Conservationist for the Watsonville area. Since he has trapped kangaroo rats in the vicinity, he most kindly agreed by previous arrangement to help us further in finding likely localities for trapping Dipodomys, which we are especially anxious to secure. Mr. Hawbecker first took us to the Enos Ranch, about 2 miles out of Corralitos and showed us a place where he trapped Dipodomys in 1940. We viewed it only from a distance - a section edged in brush and on a hillside. The soil here is of a very sandy, fine texture, seemingly very suitable for