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M. Brock
1957
Journal
June 5
Innaw River + 30 miles SW Barrow, Northern Alaska
Tom Cade spotted a lemming and caught it.
Later Tom saw another lemming which he
failed to catch. Approximately eight miles
South of Barrow I caught a lemming
which was running in the tracks the LVT
had made on the way to Innaw. It was
later found out that Lowell had seen a
lemming running on the ground somewhere.
Bill's final count on jeagers (when we
returned to Barrow at about 9:30 PM)
was 8 poramine, 1 longtail, 7 parasite
and 9 unknown jeagers.
After we returned to the lab and talked to
Map, he told us that the people in Wainright
had caught 400 lemmings and wanted to
know whether they should stop. The first "shipment"
of 200 is to come in Friday
J.R.H. Ft. Barrow, Alaska
June 6
Prepared for going to Mead River Trip proposed.
Oiled traps baited traps
June 7
Helped process most of the lemmings
brought back from Wainright by Cade & Maher.
Their shipment of 200 lemmings did not
come in today. Prepared again for leaving
for Mead River - plane had brake trouble,
we will leave tomorrow (?). Chester Lampel
and Frank Talbut are also going to Mead
River and will go on a plane ahead of us.