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Macheson
1968
Journal
18 June) additional Pedicia, so I don't think more time
in the extractor is the answer. Maybe 40 watt
light bulbs would generate more beet.
19 June
Barrow, Alaska
the 800 samples taken yesterday are
located. Processed the haul in the morning, then
went out to do halo, tar trangess. Most of the
lines are clear now, but no line is completely so.
The job takes longer each time - III A-B, IV A+B, back
through the lab, then IV+V, I+II before dinner.
Gasline Ridge is located with blooming Pedicularis,
Salix rotundifolia catkins, Ranunculus, Saxifraga
cernua about to bloom. Went out after
dinner to finish the job: V+VI, VII+VIII.
Still lots of baird activity. It is obvious now
that the pterodacts will be another bust. The final
evidence: the unbalanced sex ratio - many more ♂♂
than ♀♀ now. this will be a low phalarope year,
too, but not as much non-breeding in this sp. No
sign of the knots.
20 June
Barrow, Alaska
Today was Dr. Pitelka's Departure day and
the day of initiation of tanglefoot insect traps.
Petz and I greased up the boaras and hedero
our. At site I found positions #1,2, and 3
still under snow. Set #4,5,6, then went to
site II. There, positions 5 and 6 were too wet to
set, so we placed #1-4 out on the Betel