Hall 1955 284 July 4 Sagehen Creek, 3 mi. NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co, Calif. R'slide the male is almost always seen first working up from the vicinity of A to pond 4 whereas the other two beavers usually emerge from the lodge at pond #4 first in eve. noted a pile warbler in willows at 7:30 + then got down and worked downstream to where we knocked out a dam at the water inlet this afternoon. No beavers here now and of course no attempt at rebuilding dam yet. However there is much evidence of recent willow cutting on fairly large scale. Paths, fresh tracks in mud, canals etc. They have evidently shifted much of their cutting activity down here, probably since last fall, to points well below where my lowest willow samples are . 8:05 spot- ted mother, yellow-haired and half- grown, black-haired porcupines com-ing backward down a large lodge-pole. At base the young nursed for-a moment, then & proceeds along the forest floor i the yng following Path exactly, nose to tail. & sits up on log 30 yds farther on & lets