Banks 1959 Journal 44. Nov. 14-15 Tomales Point, 0-250 ft., Marin Co., Calif.- Here on a Mammalogy (2nd, 135) field trip with Dr. S.B Benson, students Ken Evans, Frank Rodowsky, Bob Bankhe, John Hopkirk, + Lorain Barnes. John Barnes also dog. Met at Benson's place near Inness, checked traps he had set for Mountain Beaver the night before, on the road to Pt. Reyes. We arrived at the Lower Pierce Ranch, near the end of Tomales Point, about noon, and made camp in the old millhouse. The ranch is unoccupied. The point is grazed, and is a mixture of grass and brush, very open at very the present, and low grass because of the lack of rain. The west slope of the point is very steep, the east more gradual with wide, longer gullies, and more brush. In the afternoon, we hiked around the point, looking at animal sign and habitat. At low tide the beach (eastside) is narrow & rocky, except at the openings of the gullies from the ridge where there is a narrow sand beach. At high tide it is difficult to get along the shore. In late p.m., students set traps. Benson set 5 steel traps. Caught, in the evening, 1 Fox and 2 voles. Went night hunting; Benson called, with predator call, several dope+ coons, but it was a bright night & they didn't come very close. Sun morning we