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Bride
1934
July 12 This region abounds in Artemisia, up at our camp are several groves of Mountain Mahogany and in the draws are marshy meadows much over grazed. These meadows have a number of clumps of Iris, Mimulus, rushes, and grass. They are covered with "hummocks" made by the sheep and cattle trampling in the wet meadow. We noted an abundance of gopher workings.
Before breakfast I shot a small sparrow Spizella breweri. After Breakfast I went with Hall again. We stopped in a meadow on Cut Creek, 8900 ft., Mt Grant, Mineral Co. Nevada to set five sets of traps for gophers. Then we proceeded up to the 10,000 ft. level on Mt. Grant where we gathered in our trap lines. I had nine Peromyscus maniculatus and three Lagomathus parvus in 12 of 25 sets. After this we went on up to the top of Mt Grant, 11,303 ft. The view from the top was very fine. The Sierras showed for mile to the west and southwest. Below to the east lay Walker Lake and to the southeast Hawthorne and the Naval ammunition depot. The topogra-