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B. Nesto
1982
Journal
Vicinity of San Jose, San Jose Prov., Costa Rica
July cont forest that was supposed to be there. We never
found it - the surrounding area is all cut
over with only small strips of trees. Cattle.
We finally set traps in 2 areas that probably
won't yield Heteromys, but were the best we could
find (see map)
trap site 1
trap site 2
River
Parad Rd.
Villa Colon N
CHURCH
dirt rd
Pared Rd.
.6km
Hwy 7
Site 1 has some cattle + horse pastures around it,
some coffee plantings. It is a strip of forest
along a small stream. Lots of steep ravines, open
understory in most places but some patches of
bamboo, vines. I set 10 traps near the stream,
then 20 more in the forest along the edge of a
pasture with some secondary brush. Duke + Phil
set 40/30 traps respectively. Site 2 is near a
river, but not right on the bank. Steep slopes in
the area as a whole, mostly overgrown with