W.L. Calvin 1956

Student field notes from zoology classes in 1956

Catalogue 1 mi. N.E.Bicknell, 7300 ft.,Wayne Co.,Utah. WeL. Calvi . 1956 18 May 1956 #1 Q Eutamias Dorsalis #2 o& Peromyscus crinitus 150-77-19-20 #3 6 Eutamias dorsalis 210-89-31-15 210-90-30-15 2 mi. SeWe Bicknell, 7100 ft., Wayne Co., Utah. : : 18 May 1956 ¢ Ondatrazibethica Skull only 19 May 1956 #5 @ Neotoma lepida 28)-115-30-30 #6 @ Peromyscus maniculatus 1)5-58-19-17 g Peromyscus maniculatus 120-52-19-17 1 mi. N.E. Bicknell, 7300 ft., Wayne Co., Utah. 19 May 1956 o Futamias dorsalis 226-9);-36-19 | g Eutamias dorsalis 212-88-33-19 Q Citellus lateralis 275-90-],0-20 Account of Species Kutamias dorsalis | 1 mi. N.E. Bicknell, 7300 Ft., Wayne Co., Utah. WeL.Calvin 1956 Single specimen, W.L.C. #1, was taken near 18 May burrow hole under Large sandstone boulder on oatmeal bait in a rat trap. Peromyscus crinitus 1 mi. N.E. Bicknell, 7300 Ft., Wayne Co., Utah. Single specimen, W.L.C. #2, was taken in open space on red sandy soil in a museum special trap using oatmeal as bait. Eutamias dorsalis 1 mi. N.E, Bicknell, 7300 Ft., Wayne Co., Utah. Single specimen, W.L.C. #3 was taken near burrow entrance on a gandstone boulder covered hill 100 yards west of sunglow forest camp. Oatmeal baited rat trap was used. Ondatra zibethica 2 mi. S.W. Bicknell, 7100 Ft., Wayne Co., Utah. Single (skull only) specimen, W.L.C. 4h, was taken between lava rocks on hill west of Bicknell bottoms. 1956 19 May Neotoma l@pida 2mi. 5.W. Bicknell, 7100 Ft., Wayne Co., Utah. eingle specimen, W.L.C. #5, was taken at entrance to wood rats nest located in lava rock west of Bicknell bottoms. Peromyscus maniculatus 2 mi. S.W. Bicknell, 7100 Ft., Wayne Co., Utah. Two specimens, W.L.C. #6 & 7, were taken in museum traps from under sagebrush bushes just west of Freemont river. 2 sea es I Bly ane ee Sy El aON a igODL eT eee si eeI) “a PII POA A ag KER Si. a Le ee Cpl AE. Pn Bo % Pa Rin ha a lh Kutamias dorsalis 1 mi. N.E. Bicknell, 7300 Ft., Wayne Co., Ut. Two specimens, W.L.C. #8 & 9, were taken west of sunglow forest camp in rat traps that were placed at the very entrance of the animals burrows. | Citellus lateralis 1 mi. N.E. Bicknell, 7300 Ft., Wayne Co., Ut. Single specimen, W.1.C. #10, was taken in rat trap placed on top of sandstone boulder | on hill 100 yards west of Sunflow forest Camp. Itinerary On the morning of May 17, 1956 a group of Biological Science instructors and students left the University of Utal upper campus in route to Wayne Co. Utah. After about an average trip of around five hours the majority of the caravan had reach out destination which was the Sunglow forest camp, one mile North East of Bicknell, Utah. ‘This area is typical Wayne Wonderland country and was found to be extremely beautiful, and for our purpose of collecting specimens quite lucrative. At approximately 6:15 P.M. on May 17, 1956, after camp had been set up and everyone became settle d, lark Burggraf, Ralph Foley, William Gilbert, A. We Anderson and yours truly proceeded, via Burggraf' s car, to a point about .5 of a mite Mast of our camp. While Mark and Ralph were busy setting the ir traps along the side of a small stream ( upstream), Gil bert. and Anderson set their traps down stream. It was my responsibility to take to the highland and set my thirty traps. I therefore, started the climb of the northern slope of the south side of the canyon. The thirty traps in my possession were set at five pace intervals as near as possible to places that showed evidence of life. As for a description of the avke covered I can only say that it was a red, sandy soil that was covered with the talus sandstone boulders that had been at once time part of the overhangs ledges above. The flora of this area consisted of ap Sparsley spaced yellow pine. After setting our traps we all met at mark's car and returned to camp for dinner and an evening game of hearts before retiring for the night. Dr. S. D. Durrant routed all members of our now thriving little camp at l:30 A. M. , May 18, 1956. After a breif period of dressing and time for a smoke the same five members of the party returned to the site that we had set our traps the night before. My yeald for the evening consisted of one Eutamias dorsalis and one Peromyscus crinitus. We once again met at the car and returned to camp; this time for break- fast. On a suggestion of day line trapping by Dr. Durrant I hoisted 25 rat traps on my shoulder and made my way up the rocky slope of the hill that was about one hundred yards west of our camp. The time was about 8:15 A. M. when I finished setting the 25 traps, in the sand stone bouldered@nviromment. It was also noted that in this preeise area there was no vegetation. With in an hour and a half 1 made a check of the line and returned with 8 Eutamias dorsalis. <A short time later I rechecked the line and found two more Eutamias dorsalis. At this point all traps were retrived and the rest of the day was spent skinning and stuffing our newly acquired spec- ‘imens. At bout 6 P. M. May 18, 1956, the four previously mentioned members of the party, myself andM. Raymond Lee headed out of camp with the Bicknell bottoms as our goal for the next nights trap lines. At the bottoms we set out around 180 traps, some were set on the banks of the Freemont River, some on the Sage Brush covered point and some large rat traps among the Lava Rocks on small rise to the West of the bottoms. The next morning, May 19, 1956 we returned to our trap lines and emerged victorious with three Neotoma lepida, two Eutamias minimus and numerous Peromyscus maniculatus. We then returned to our main camp at the Sunglow Forrest Camp and ate breadfast. After breakfast William Gilbert and myself set 25 rat traps along the sandstone ledges that were just east of camp. 1 then set 20 more traps on the hill west of camp. On our return trips we caught one Eutamias dorsalis on the eastern trap line, one Evutamias dorsalis and two Citellus lateralis on our western line. This gave us quite a few specimens to work with for the day so we returned to our task of skinning and stuffing. However, I contin- ved to run our line through out the day and came up with another Citellus and a couple more Eutamias dorsalis. On the evening of May 19, 1956 we had our first threat of bad weather. began raining. It wasn! t long before it The joint concern of Burggraf, Foley, Anderson, Gilbert, and Calvin still lacked one spec- imen for total of 50 (10 each), so I returned to our very productive hill and set 15 rat traps for the night. By morning the sky was clear and bright as as it had been for the majority of our trip, so I went on to check my line. This time I did not have any Chipmunks or Squirrels, but I had taken 3 Peromyscus maniculatus and one Peromyscus crinituse This finished our trapping of Wayne County, Utah (for this year), so we struck camp, gathered our personal gear and headed for Salt Lake, just as the rain clouds began to blot out the rays of the sun.