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Hoffmeister
1942
Itinerary
May 21 Lone Pine Cr., 8200 ft, 9 1/2 mi. W 7 1/4 mi. S Lone Pine, Inyo Co., Calif.
Drove in to Lone Pine, arriving at 1:30 p.m., and then continued
up Lone Pine Creek, through the Alabama Hills, to this locality.
We are camped at a U.S. Forest Service "camp" adjacent to Lone Pine
Creek. In the immediate vicinity there is Pinus ponderosa, Abies
concolor, Pseudotsuga taxifolia, Mountain mahogany, Water Birch,
south-facing
and Salix. On the adjacent canyon walls, there are, at an even
higher elevation, piñon mixed with mountain mahogany, with
a few yellow pines and firs, and even some mazanita.
May 22 Set 25 traps (mouse) along a small tributary into Lone Pine
Creek. Caught 2 Microtus montanus and 1 Sorex. 11 traps
set particularly for chipmunks caught, during the night, 4
Peromyscus maniculatus. 3 Schuyler traps caught nothing.
Shot a Citellus lateralis among some rocks near the roadway
and a Tamiasciurus near camp
May 23 Set 50 traps along the small creek (the same as of May 22). Left
25 out during the day yesterday (in which I caught 1 Russet-
locked Thrush), and 25 additionally. Caught only 1 Peromyscus
maniculatus in these 50 traps. They all were near the creek
edge and in grass wherever possible. Of 3 Schuylers I
caught a Citellus lateralis from a entrance hole beneath a
cabin. Another Schuyler trap had disappeared. 10 traps set
for chipmunks caught 1 Peromyscus maniculatus.
30 traps set on the higher south facing canyon wall
opposite our camp, and at an elevations between 8800 and
9000 ft., caught 9 Peromyscus truei and 5 P. maniculatus.
These were caught in an association dominated by
piñon and mountain mahogany. However, some yellow