Field notes, v1389
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P.A.Kelly 1983 Journal 4. Oct. 28 Hastings Reservation, Carmel Valley, Monterey Co., CA. left HVZ @ 10:20 on the Mammalogy Field Trip to Hastings. Arrived around 2 pm after stopping in Salinas for lunch and supplies. 3/4 the class already made this trip last weekend. Catty joined me on this trip to learn how to set trap lines, and how to skin and prepare specimens. Around 3pm Jim Patton marched us up a huge hill to the west of the buildings where we trapped along a chaparral. Catty and I laid 3 Museum Specials at each of 5 locations (2,4,6,8,10) in the dense chaparral. Joseph Lindahl did the remaining 5 on that line. We baited with a mix of peanut butter and oatmeal as at Sagehen. Before dark, Mike Cellerman and I also set a line of 17 Sherman's - baited with oatmeal - in the chaparral behind the schoolhouse. The Calhoun line was not to be checked until morning, but Mike and I checked the Shermans around 9pm. We also checked 4 Comahawks we had set for woodrat near the buildings. Shermans: 2 Dipodomys venustus 5 Peromyscus truei 1 Perognathus californicus Comahawks: 1 Nestoma fusipes (junv) One of those Dipodomys was caught in the same