P.A Kelly 1988 Journal Sat. July 16 Sageler Creek Field Station, Nevada Co., California Left Berkeley around 9 a.m. with Yelisa A. Smith (grad. student from U.C. Irvine) to trap Brushy- tailed Woodrats in the Sageler Basin and along the Tuuchee and Little Tuuchee River. Yelisa is a 2nd year grad student working on the nutritional ecology of Neoloma (esp. N. lepida) with Rich Lenslei and Keith Justice (emeritus) at U.C.I.. We stopped off in Tuuchee for supplies and to survey the talus slopes along the east bank of the Tuuchee River (USGS 15' Tuuchee Quadrangle (1955): T. 17 N., R. 16 E.; Zones 15, 22 & 21). After fording the Tuuchee River we found that we could drive driven there along a dirt road (Powerline access road off Hwy 267 S. of bridge over Tuuchee R.). We were also surprised to find very little fresh woodrat sign in the abundant talus/cliff/Azuren habitat. At Sageler I borrowed 20 large Tomahawk traps (mainly 1"x1" mesh unfortunately) from the Fish Hut. We set 10 at the Upper Spring, 5 at Lower Spring and 5 at the Rockslide. Although we didn't see any fresh sign at either of the latter two locations we then drove back to the Tuuchee River locations and rigid galvanized set 25 large Sherman traps (5"x5"x16") at 3 locations (10, 5, + 10 respectively - Yelisa has more extensive notes on those 3 locations).