Alaska journal, v4433
Page 127
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MacLean 1968 Journal (10 July) Site No. of traplines IV A-B and took 6 500 cores down to permafrost (ca. 9 inches) with the 4 inch corer. Returned to the lab and spent the rest of the morning hand-sorting these from the bottom up. Found a total of 1 Pedicia (13 mm); hypothesis discarded, mystery remains. The 1 larva was near the surface and would have been included in our normal 500 sample. The 16 samples in the funnel now appear to be on there way to duplicating the results of the previous samples. In the afternoon something caught up with me. Fell asleep on a table in the lab, then went home to sleep all afternoon while Pete checked the emergence traps. Came in to count more tanglefoots in the evening, then home for more sleep. 11 July Barrow, Alaska The wind has finally gone down a bit - down to moderate, but fairly warm. In early to count the one remaining board, clean and prepare all of them, then spent the remainder of the morning catching up on my damn field notes. Out with Pete in the afternoon for the tanglefoot change. We arrived at Site II too early to make the change, so we took a walk into Holmes'