journal Hafner, M.S. 1976 Taft, 800 ft., Kern Co., California 10 April (cont) survey. Warm day (~70°), high cirrus clouds, breeze from the west. We set 60 traps about 0.5 mi. E of the Hwy 58 - IS interchange. We drove on a dirt road about 0.2 mi. N of Hwy 58. (Habitat to be described later). We saw several Sylvilagus and 1 Lepus. We drove West a Hwy 58, through Buttonwillow, then about 0.5 mi. further W on Loken Rd. where we set 60 traps just S of Loken Rd. The weather was quite warm by this time (Dacey carried Emily around in the back-pack). 1300 we got back on Hwy 58 and drove S through McKittrick and Derby Acres to Taft. This entire area of the Valley is oil country. The habitat is essentially "natural" and I have little worry for the native mammals as long as only oil wells are here. We rented a room in Taft ($20.00) so Dacey and Emily could clean-up. I drove NE out of Town on Hwy 119 where I set 60 traps at a point 1.5 mi. E and 3 mi. N Taft, along the edge of a wash just to the S of the Hwy. I continued NE on Hwy 119 and turned NW on Tupman Road where I set out 60 traps 1.5 mi. E and 1.2 mi. S Tupman (just W of road below a almost steep cliffs). I continued back on 119 to IS