Journal Vicinity Coso Junction, Inyo Co., Calif Sept 5 locality information - Says one article in the L.A. Times: the desert is a dangerous place Apparently its dangerous to those who strike out across the desert without water. Probably also without much idea of where they are 12 midnight : Turn on Sept. 6. 6:30 am Start checking traps. 12 noon finished gicking up the 4 mi. E Coso Jct trapline and either checking or collecting the traps 1-1/2 mi. E. Coso Junction. Since I caught no deserts and only 4 Perognathus formosus, I decided to spend another night here. There will be neither at Walker Pass, my next locality. I caught a few deserts here in the summer of 1979 but even then they were sparse. The soil there is pondy & deep enough in few places perhaps. Didn't catch many P longimembris last night either. Strange - They were extremely common my last visit here. The following species were caught in the petriplex scrub on the flats (catalogue locality 1, 1/2 mi. E Coso Junction): Peromyscus maniculatus 2 (+4 released) 30 captures / 60 traps Onychomys torridus 3 Pipidromys merriami 15 (several escaped) D. microgus 5 (one miscatalogued merriami - to be corrected later) A. levamis 1