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Affirmative
1942
Itinerary
June 14
Waucoba Mtn. to Montgomery Creek, Mono Co., Calif.
At 4 1/2 mi. N Big Pine, where we stopped and I collected copepods
in the marshy areas along the road, we heard Savannah and
Sparrows, Red-wings. Drove in to Bishop and on to
Benton Station where we gathered certain information
concerning the creeks running down the west side of the
White Mountains. We proceeded up Montgomery Creek to
our present collecting site, which is along this creek at
between 6850 and 6900 feet elevation. Pisions begin at
(6500 to)
about 6000 feet up this canyon. The canyon is very narrow
with shale-covered side slopes. To the northeast is Montgomery
Peak (13,000+ feet). There are very few junipers in this
region (I have seen only 1, at about 7000 feet). At about
7100 feet, in the canyon bottom, there is some Mountain
Mahogany growing with the pisions. Along the creek,
which is flowing now and apparently flows all
year long, there is scrub willow. Between the pisions,
and on the small flats in the canyon bottom, Artemisia
predominates.
June 15
Set out 65 mouse-traps. 45 were in the flat along
the creek and 20 were in the pisions and rocks. Those in
the flat were on coarse, firmly-packed, rocky soil grown
with Artemisia, Chrysophranum, and a few pisions, and 3
traps were among the willows. These traps caught 1
Reithrodontomys megalotis, 6 Perognathus parvus, 9 Peromyscus
maniculatus, 3 P. ermitius, and 2 P. truei. There is sign
of deer along the creek. Cottontails are scarce but jack
rabbits are abundant along the lower edge of the