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Hoffmeister
1939
Itinerary
1mi. SW Satus Pass, 3200 ft., Klickitat Co., Wash.
limits of a large Indian reservation. Set out
60 museum special traps, 57 of which were
in habitat bordering a small creek, grown
thick with Salix, Populus tremuloides, Pinus
ponderosa, Pseudotsuga taxifolia, and wild
rose, besides grasses and sedges. The 57
traps caught: 1 Sorex palustris ?, 2 Clethrionomys
gapperi (6?,), and 1 Peromyscus maniculatus (6?, 1 ?)
3 of which were very young. The 3 other traps
were set on a logged hillside and caught
nothing, and 6 rat traps set here for
chipmunks especially caught none. Also
set a single gopher trap (Johnson set 2),
but none caught any.
Continued back to Maryhill, stopping again
in Goldendale for repairs on the car.
July 17
4mi. NE Roosevelt, 200 ft., Klickitat Co., Wash.
Broke camp about 5:00 P.M. yesterday
and drove eastward along the river of
unimproved Washington highway 8E and
other roads, close to the river. Made camp
about 7:30, and then set out 61 traps. This
spot is the barren shelf rising north of
the Columbia river, fine sand stretching
back 250 yards to the base of hills rising
400 or 500 feet above the stream. The sand is