Journal Hafner, H.S. 1978 En Route: Playa Azul to Arteaga, Michoacán, México. 26 March headed out of town toward Arteaga. Stopped for some pictures of the beautiful trees in bloom - they have loads of light-pink to purple blossoms (I think they are legumes?). About 9:30 arrived in Arteaga and managed to call home from a drugstore switchboard. All's well at home. We continued west of town in search for Orthogeomys signs. Stopped several times to search-out areas, but found only old holes. We re-set the trap at the site 12 km. (by road) NE of town (where the gopher had previously buried our traps). This time we tried a new trapping technique: shaft dug into tunnel (covered with) banana leaves surface burrow entrance trap burrow We hoped that the animal would not sense the trap until too late. We put a layer of earth on top of the banana leaves to keep out all light. 1200 we continued looking for more active gopher signs. We pulled-over at several fields until we finally found a banana plantation (small plantation) with several