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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