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Kingsley
1980
60
10 Nov
Plummer Canyon Rd-
with Mark Hodgkins. Set 11 traps in 3 lines
8 mi E Grapevine Pk 5000 ft Sagebrush. 2 lines
of 40 shrews 20 m between stations
2 traps per station, plus 10 mouse speels
set at every other station. Plus 1 line of
11 mouse specials in pairs. Vegetation:
sagebrush, weedover, etc. Terrain flat
gravelly. Weather: quite cool and windy
clooding up. Then went to Plummer Mine,
saw 3 holes as. 1 mi E of Stineologic
station. In Plummer Mine we found 15 Pleotus
townsendi and 3 Myotis californicus I collected
2 Myotis, Mark took 3 of the pleotus and
recorded them using a bat detector.
Camped at Stineologic station. Overcast, windy.
11 Nov
8 mi E Grapevine Peak 5000 ft Sagebrush
last night's traps caught:
Dipodmys microps
8
42.1
D. merriami
5
26.3
Parquatius formosus
2
10.5
Onychomys torridus
1
5.3
Paramyxus maniculatus
1
5.3
Reithrodontomyss neogotis 1
5.3
Ammospermophilus leucurus 1
5.3
19/111 = 17.1% 100.
Only one animal, a D. merriami was caught in
snap traps, all others in shrews. Picked up traps
by 1000 hr. Set one unsuccessful gopher trap
as there was a small amount of gopher sign.