Alaska journal, v4433
Page 155
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MacLean 1968 Journal 31 July Barrow, Alaska Transfer day. Very uneventful; I, II, III A-B & IVA-B in the morning, the rest in the afternoon. Even in the absence of significant precipitation the area seems to be slightly wetter - probably due to increasing melt depth and the absence of drying winds. In the evening Bob Henshaw gave an uninspiring seminar on circulatory thermoregulatory mechanisms in wolves and wolverines. Bar and talked afterwards, then out to measure larvae, and so to bed. 1 August Barrow, Alaska Spent the morning reading the whole, Dawn set of tanglefoots again, then cleaned and regressed. Our to make the change. Still many semi-pals in Central Marsh and along vessel roads; pectorals in Central Marsh and on adjacent Beach Ridge. Golden Plovers have about disappeared from the Marsh. In addition to the tanglefoot change we took 8 4-inch sod cores from Emergence traps II-1 & II-2 to see what remains after the emergence, and thus gain some idea of how many larvae are entering their 3rd year. Set up some of the larger berlese funnels to accommodate these. In the evening I accompanied the