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ullion
1949
Journal
-122-
Aug 12 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - Visited my mammal traps in Spruce Forest E of Camp. - 1 Zapus and 1 Rana was extent of catch so I picked up the traps and moved them - 18 of them - to positions along the little stream going thru the woods. Now all my traps are along that water course - the last one marked by a shrubs cabbage leaf under it. This "stream" does not seem to be moving, it is closely bordered by a Sedge Care, by deer fern Comaria spicant and [illegible] fern Athyrium filix-femina and by shrubs cabbage. A broad-leaf maple Acer macrophyllum overhang much of the trap line, and Sword fern Polystichum munitum and salmonberry form dense thicket just back from the stream edge. The ground is well covered with moss. Mosquitos and Rana aurora? are for abundance.
Returning towards Camp I found a pair of House Wrens feeding around the base of a large fallen Tree in the [illegible] pasture E of Camp. Skinned the Zapus I caught, preserved the 7 salamander larvae I found in the "stream" with