P.A. Kelly 1986 Journal Hastings Natural History Reservation, Carmel Valley, Monterey Co., California Nov. 29 I drove down from Berkeley with Cathy yesterday. Jim Patton also came to Hastings with Jim Ryan, his prospective Post Doc from U. Mass. at Amherst. All four of us trapped and weighed woodrats at Houses 1 to 97 in the long field last night. It drizzled a little around 11pm and I wondered if some of the woodrats were affected by the damp ness. Plan to retrap houses 1 to 26 tonight to check on "dampened" woodrats. Alan (the caretaker on the Tregoa Ranch) noticed drag marks on Martin Rd when he was heading out to the Hway (616) in the morning. He sus- pected a lion kill and found the carcass of a freshly killed deer 1/2 mi down the Rd from the start of the Drag. He called Jim Griffin or the hill. Patton, Ryan, Cathy and I visited the hill at around 10am. It was located a few hundred yards inside the Martin Gate in deep leaf litter beneath a med. sized Live Oak. The Thorax was opened up on the L side; some skin, the heart and one lung were gone. I took a lot of photos of the carcass, the pugmarks the site of the ambush, and also the drag marks. Around 11:30am I decided to give Ian Tait a call in Bakersfield. He immediately