Kingsley 1980 52 6 Oct McDonald Spring 5600 ft, sagelrush community. Last night's trap success: Wash line: Peromyscus eremicus 2, 1 specimen #375, (snap trap) the other cleaned from Sherman trap. 2/40 Flat line 1 Dipodomys merriami, snap trap, specimen #376 1/40 Total 3/80 = 3.75% who caught 3 white crowned sparrows in snap traps. Very poor success, could be effect of overgrazing? Tried digging up likely looking gopher wounds, found one with a hole, set 1 trap, caught nothing. Picked up traps at 1400 hrs. Moved to Hooligan Mine. 6 Oct Hooligan Mine 4800 ft, mixed shrub community with Artemesia scattered. Arrived here about 1600, parked and camped at point where road is washed out, below mine. To the north is a small hill with several mine shafts. S is a valley, across which is a ridge. W the valley ascends to sagelrush community. Here, sagbrush is uncommon to rare in a mixed shrub community of Meydora Ephedra, Lycium, Haplopappus croperi, Gravia; the rocky wash contained: Excelsia farosa, Stephanomeria Gutierrezia, Hyssopoclea, Eriogoum fasciculatum, Ephedra, Sarcostemma. On rocky hill was Atriplex confertifolia, Hachueracullera, same dominants as flat. Hill apparently contains limestone and volcanic rocks. Set 120 traps in 3 lines. One line of 40 Sherman's, 2-trap stations, 20 m apart going W along road on flat. One line of 40 traps, 2-trap stations putting Sherman and museum special, going W