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J. Crowley
1941
Journal
May 25 Pismo Gulch State Park, Mendocino Co., Calif. elev. 75 ft.
Of the 23 traps set on preceding night 5 had catches - 2 Peromyscus maniculatus, 1 Sorex vagrans, 1 Sorex pacificus, 1 immature Peromyscus maniculatus (?). One trap had been sprung, but was gone and a face was left in the trap. After collecting our traps from the riparian habitat in the redwoods, Viola and I obtained such plants as sword fern, lady fern, gold-back fern, deer fern, five fingered fern, hound's-tongue, Vancouveria, Columbine, bleeding-heart, 2 kinds of alum-root, bed-straw. We put up our animals. At 4:00 we walked westward to a meadow on the point west side of the State Park just above the highway and bridge. He set 24 Museum special mouse traps along the edges of the meadow where it met such bordering trees as hound's-tongue, willow, alders and low wet berry shrubs. He set 4 rat traps in a dense thicket of alder oaks where we saw of a wood rat nest.