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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