Field notes, v1360
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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