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Hoffmeister
1939
Itinerary
Staywhill Spq, 5150 ft, Columbia Co., Wash.
The "marshy meadow" is about 25 yds. square, on a gentle slope, and is broken up by a few bushes.
Runways were only slightly evident and most of the traps were set at random around the edge of the meadow and a few in center, tall grass.
The Mustela cognacii specimen was caught in a museum special trap in the meadow, about 5 feet from the edge, in grass about 1 foot high.
The Zapus and Clethrionomys were caught nearer the center. The traps along the trail average 20 yards apart and the 4 traps in the 1st meadow were placed along the stream near the center.
Last evening, I shot a Sciurus hudsonicus along the trail, about 50 feet from the cabin.
July 30
Alber, ft., Umatilla Co., Oregon
Broke camp at 3 P.M., driving south along the Skyline Road, and Dr. Hall leaving us here, going back to Dayton, headed for Portland. We drove to Toll Gate, Oregon, and then via Oregon Highways 204 and 11 to Pendleton, continuing from here after dinner, via U.S. Highway 395 to this locality, which is about 2½ miles south, by highway, of Battle Mountain State Park. Did not arrive until about 8:45 P.M. and had no time to set traps. This morning, heard Sciurus hudsonicus,