Maclean 1967 Journal [20 June] a good conversation with Don and Tom. Put up a longspur for Tom to use in eliciting behavior and possibly during off into traps for banding. Not too bad, for the first live mounse in a while. Spent the rest of the evening at a lasagna party at Rita Horner's. On the way in to Barrow to pick up Esna for this saw a buff-breast displaying along the side of the road. 21 June Barrow, Alaska the West wind is back, bringing Bering Sea weather - high overcast, warm, and rain. Drove our to Beach Ridge and dropped Pitelka, then Don and I drove to area of Micro- Mer Tanglefoots to take soil cores for insect extraction. Took 2 cores from each of high polygon w/ sparse graminiform, low polygon, polygon trough, wet marsh, and pond edge, using our metal cores. Don will dry the wetter samples in the berlese funnels, and hand pick all samples. Right now, in addition to censusing, we want to find our how much Don can hope to effectively sample. Don then drove to check on