Boulevard, ST 1941 18 May 26 Russian Gulch State Park, 200 ft., Mendocino Co., Calif. Few ferns, dead twigs & branches, berry bushes form ground cover. We saw several large woodrat nests; seems ideal woodrat habitat. Climbed shortway up Douglas Fir & investigated a small stick nest - empty. [Ranger Paul Engelhardt possesses no map of] the park, but he informed us that the park spread in a triangle back from the ocean up the gulch stream; park contains 11 acres; 500 ft. is highest point, presumably up in the pine barrens. May 27 Cold last night with clearing. Warm, cloudless, and sunny today. Airing of bedding and washing of clothes. This afternoon Mrs. Grinnell, Fran, and I walked a short distance up North Trail and then straight up into the brush and forest to inspect traps Mrs. Grinnell has set out. We found a slight trail leading down from hydraulic pump. Trail comes out into a dry stretch of south-facing slope about 80 feet above road and sprinkled with very healthy Blue divericola. As we sat amidst it, uncertain and Violet-green Swallows dismayed, we watched [Blue Swifts] zooming and gliding over the gulch. Mrs. Grinnell saw a Cooper Hawk and subsequent alarm notes among swallows were heard. Fran and I set gopher traps and mole trap in meadow near Ranger Cabin. Set more gopher traps on point jutting out north of bridge. Looking off a high bluff down into the bay, I saw something