P.A. Kelly 1983 Journal Sagehen Creek Field Station, Nevada Co., California ri, Sept. 9 left HVZ at 10.30 am on the Mammalogy Course (163) Field Trip to Sagehen Creek Field Station, Nevada Co., CA arriving there c. 7.15pm. The 16 students were divided up into 4 groups of 4 under Jim Patton (JLP), Bill Lidicker (WZL), Ed Heske (TA) and Rick Warner (TA). I was in Rick's group with Mike Gellerman, Irene Timossi and Ann Brooks. At about 4 pm we all set off to set individ ual lines of 30 Museum Special Snap Traps, baited with a mixture of peanut butter and oatmeal. Our group drove to some damp meadows and chaparral (off Hwy 89) 1/2 miles east of the field station. I crossed the stream on the west side of the Hwy and walked up through a very damp meadow until I reached a north-south running lumber track. I set my first line of 15 traps from a medium sized boulder beside the track and on eastwards, up into the drier mea dow. Traps were set 10 paces apart and tied to vegetation. At the end of this line, I set another at right angles (to the left, ie North) into young pine and currant shrubs. We also set some large Tomahawk wire traps for bushy-tailed woodrats in a big hatch