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Boulware, FT
1941
2
May 17 Russian Gulch, Mendocino Co., Calif.
Tall brush consisting of thimble berry, raspberry,
lady ferns, Equisetum, elderberry, bracken,
and red alders. Caught 12 animals: 4 Sorex
pacificus, 4 Sorex trowbridgii, 1 Sorex vagrans,
4 Peromyscus maniculatus, and 1 Reithrodonmys
megalotis. Tall grass of meadows very damp.
About 3 PM Frances and I hiked up North Trail.
South facing slope of hill covered mainly with
redwoods - thick, wet tangle of underbrush.
Atop the hill we found many rhododendrons in
bloom, groups of small cypress strongly suspected
of being Cupressus pygmaea, groves of Pinus muricata.
May 18 Left camp at 6:30 and went up North Trail to flat
where traps set last night. 32 traps set with
following catch: 1 Peromyscus maniculatus in
low growth of bracken, manzanita, much Vaccinium;
scattered growth of Cupressus pygmaea & Pinus muricata
not over 5 or 6 ft. high. More open & comparatively dry.
1 Sorex vagrans at base of tall Bishop pine at
opening enclosed by dry needles & bracken in
grove of Pinus muricata and Pseudotsuga taxifolia.
Damp, more open undergrowth of rhododendron,
bracken, Vaccinium ovatum, Ledum glandulosum ;
1 Microtus in dense growth of tanbark oak,
Cupressus pygmaea, rhododendron, bracken, Pinus
muricata, manzanita, Vaccinium. Traps set where
pygmy cypress stand maximum yielded nothing.