Field notes, v1344
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J.G.Hall 1954 244 Sept 12 Sagehen Creek, 6500ft, 3 mi. NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co. Calif. Upper return trip it got to within 3 feet of me & I wasn't sure whether it was going to "charge" or not. At 7:20 I crossed over to the S side via an upstream dam, the one on which I'd killed both this season's trapping casualty beavers, and climbed a tree. I'd barely got settled before old double-notch climbered up over this dam & little "Bew" when she got my scent on the dam. She evidently remembered my scent from the marking & tagging experience. She swam around in this pond, dove, surfaced, got back over same crossing & splashed, then chewed on an alder briefly before coming back up over the same dam where my scent was. She went to the north crossing, chewed at a stick in the dam, than went down over this dam to the next lower dam at 6:30, then on down to dead- fall dam where I'd first seen her & the small beaver upon my arrival. 6:40 a doe and spotless fawn seen working slow- ly up n shore from region of Jim's dz. 6:45 got down went over to climb up to my "regular" seat ols tree. 6:50 med-sized beaver whose tail was marked.