Journal Hebner, M-S. 1976 Ruidoso, Lincoln Co., 6700 ft., New Mexico. 14 August (cont) The traps throughout the morning and pulled them at. 1400. I caught 1 gopher at the “Bar” locality—giving us one animal from each of the 3 localities. 1400 departed Ruidoso area and drove via Hwy 70 and Hwy 214 to the Capitan Pass turnoff of Hwy 380. Drove NE over a terrible road to the summit of Capitan Gap. —Saw no suitable habitat for Thomomys. (Too dense forest and much too rocky). Descended down the NE side of the Pass over an even worse road—met a family attempting (apparently successfully) to pull a house-trailer up the steep, rocky grade! 1600 set 4 sets = 7 traps in a small clearing at about the 6900 ft. elevation mark. We were very near to the rocky pinnacles that lay just to the west of the road. The habitat was definitely ruidosae type, being mixed conifer with few Juniperus. We drove about 1 mile further where the road forks to the east. We set 6 sets = 12 traps near the road fork as below: ↑ N 0.5 mi.