Hoffmeister 1939 Itinerary Staywhile Spg., 5150 ft, Columbia Co., Wash. elk in this area had been shipped here from Yellowstone Park and that Pronghorned Antelope introduced from northern Nevada. The party also briefly visited Stores Lyman, collector and Taxidermist at Dayton. He informed us that he had taken Microtus richardsonii here at Staywhile Spring in the swampy land. He also gave us further camp information and a specimen of Thomasmys talpoides from Dayton which seemed to be a semi-reddish "albino." We continued from Dayton up into the Blue Mountains via the "Skyline road" which runs along the higher ridges to Godman Spring Ranger Station. Here I learned that cougars were relatively scarce in this region, but that Coyotes were numerous and at the present time, 2 Biological Survey trappers were "working on them", and that Odocoileus lemmurus were very abundant. Continued 6 miles southwest on the road from the ranger station and then turned one mile to the east to this locality. Set out 68 museum special traps along the small creek that runs by the cabin and car shed at the end of the road, where we are camped. The stream averages roughly 2 feet wide and 3 or 4 inches deep, and is broken up with log-formed small pools, etc.