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LIDICKER
1958
(July 2 cont.)
Mephitis mephitis - 1 (caught in rat trap by [foot]).
Dr PM we went back & reset & baited these 82 traps; saw another rock squirrel on the S ridge of the canyon. Then set 30 traps along a rocky ledge in the pine forest SW of camp (I had seen chipmunks here before & shot 1 on July 1).
Heard rats in evening, but wasn't able to get any. Marlo caught a large alligator lizard during PM.
July 3
Catch: canyon (1 1/2 mi. NW Mil Dies)
Neotoma - 2 (1 yy.)
Sorex - 2
Peromyscus sp. 2 - 2 (1 yy. released).
30 traps nr. camp -
Peromyscus sp 1 - 1
Peromyscus sp 3 - 2 (large, thick tailed;
from rocky outcrop - one had pulled trap over 100 ft down the slope; the other had pulled trap way back into hole in rock).
Shot 1 yy. Strylilogus. On the way back for trapsite N of Mil Dies I shot a rock squirrel at 1 mi. NNW Mil Dies. After skiing around Marlo & I drove into El Salto for water & then we continued E to find a new trapsite. We turned N off main rd. on to a dirt road to some
Nelsonia