D.F.Hoffmeister
1939
Itinerary
July 1
Columbia R., 300 ft. at mouth of Deschutes R., Wasco Co., Oregon
other in pure stands of Artemisia tridentata. These
traps got 3 Peromyscus maniculatus (2 ♀, 1 ♂).
July 2
Set 73 traps last night nearly directly across
the river from where we are encamped (however, in
Sherman Co.). 47 traps I set in rimrock near
the ridge of the canyon formed by the Deschutes
river, and the other 26 below the rimrock. In
all, I caught 3 Peromyscus maniculatus, (2 ♀, 1 ♂),
1 Reithrodontronga ♂, and 1 Song Sparrow.
When I set traps last night, I talked to a
ranch hand at this locality, who seems to
be quite familiar with this region. At the
mouth of the Deschutes and farther upstream, there
is a large island in the Columbia River which
covers 3000 acres. This man told me that a
professional trapper, a Mr. Martin, several years
ago stocked this island with skunks. A few
years later, the Oregon side of the river, which
flows by this island, froze over. It is
shallowest on this side and he said
cattle are waded across, when the river is
low, from this side. When the river froze
over a few years after the skunks were
planted, apparently coyotes crossed over to
the island, for when it was revisited,
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