23 Sept Plummer Mls - Strozzi Ranch - Titus Canyon Road (3800 ft) After lunch (1345) loaded for Strozzi Ranch to gather apples. Much cove sign en route, most obviously Porsilia and Atriplex canescens severely pruned and cowpat'd. Much cove and deer sign at Strozzi Ranch around the drinker and stream. No apples this year, no sign of any having been produced. Saw only 2 cows inside. Movement on way out from ranch. Drove thru Beatty, got gas, and headed out Titus Canyon - lead field road to a point approx 2 miles W of measurement boundary. This is larrea desert, 3800 ft elevation. Vegetation consists of Larrea, Ambrosia dumosa, Mimodora, Lycium, Grayia etc. Flat, no good washes near road, but some small drainages and low- rocky ridges, 1-2 feet high, running E-W that look like old walls, but probably are not. Fall moon tonight. Breezy, comfortably warm (80+ F) in day, cooling considerably (50's) at night. Clear. Saw a G-tarantula and a stink beetle as I was setting traps. Set 100 traps in 3 lines. Line #1 south from road 40 Sherman traps 2 per station, 20 meters between stations. Line 2 North from road, 20 stations, a Sherman and a Museum special at each, 20 meters apart. Line 3 between 2 and 5 meters off road on S side, parallel to road, 20 Sherwanes, 2 per station. 24 Sept same location as above, then 2 miles Picked up traps by 1000 hrs. Trap resalts next page.