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Hoffmeister
1939
Itinerary
Snake R, 350 ft, 1 mi. N Burbank, Walla Walla Co., Wash.
spot in the driftwood pile was about 20 feet from
the water's edge. The weasel seemed to have
two observations holes in the wood pile, and
stuck its head and about 1/3 of its body from
both of these at 2 different times. It blinked
repeatedly as if the light made vision difficult
and twitched and moved its nose as if trying
to more exactly localize a scent. Set 4
small "0" steel traps where I saw the Mustela.
July 22
Set traps at two localities last night
both of which were north of the Columbia River
and a short distance east of the mouth
of the Snake River. One locality, 2 mi. S.S.E.
Burbank, 350 ft., was about an 1/8 of a mile
from the Columbia, and was the soft
sand, sparsely
covered with Artemisia and Purshia?
of the dry stream bed. Set 29 traps here
and caught 5 Dipodomys ordii (3?, 2?) and
5 Cerognathus parvus (1?, 4?).
Continued to a locality farther from the
Columbia, setting traps near the railroad
right-of-way 100 yds. south of the town
marked Hermoset on the topographic maps
and listed here as 4 mi. E Burbank 500 ft.
The country here consists of low rolling
hills which slope off towards the river