Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
journal
Hager, U.S.
1976
6 mi. N, 31 mi. W Hiko, 4800 ft., Lincoln Co., Nevada.
March
0500 arose, had coffee and drove to check traps. Caught 2
gopher's (Thomomys bottae) on Queen City Summit. (Nye Co.)
Snap trap results:
NW set: 1 Microdipodops megacephalus
NE set: 3 M. pallidus
3 D. microps
1 Onychomys sp.
SW
NW set : 7 M. pallidus
2 M. megacephalus
1 D. merriami
1 Onychomys sp.
SE set : 1 D. merriami
Total snap trap success: 20/400 = 5%
Micro. success = 13/400 = 3.2%
1000 set snap traps again on old rim #1 extending East and
west from dirt road. (400 traps). Drove to the Tempite (=Lincoln)
Mining building in search of a road to the lake from the
SE side. Found a road that approached the lake. (See
map.)
dry lake
350
set 150 traps
here
- dirt roads
Mining
building
Tempite Mt.
good road
NORTH
kug 25