Eleanor Onyon 1962

Student field notes from zoology classes in 1962

E. oNYON & CATALOGUE 19b6r FP MILES NE. oF SALTAIR, 4200 Fry JACT LAKE CO, UTAH 77 ApPeit 7962 G piPodoMYS ODI 20-120-37-/0 (No emss.) i 4H 2 SF MILES ME. OF W. TOHNSO AS TUN CTION OF OPHIE | CANYON [0AD AND OQu/ RH MTNS., HIGHWAY 73, 1500 FT. Tooele Co, UTAH & 77 MAY 19762 | lo” PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS 2 1b0-FS-19-7¢ Pe es H. H. Hoe CANYON, VIS0 FT, DIXIE STATE PARK, WASHINGTON FH MAY 3 O' PIPISTCELLUS Co, UTAH 196% HESPERUS 2 Se MAY 19762 4 2 NEcTOMA LEPIDA 280- 13)- 78-5 (vo EMBS,) @ pepomyseus CRINITUS 1F#S- 89-19-19 | (4 emes.—>>mm. ) E. ONYON @ 196% 6, Conrived) F DIPODEMYS MER/AM! (Wo emes}) V30-140- 35-Jzr ¢ NEOTOMA LEPIDA 220-97 - 30-77 (We emss:) TEMey’S FAkM, Beaver DAM WASH, V#00 FT, WASHINGTON @0, VTAH we MAY 196> Q PEROENATHVS (wo emes.) FORMOSUS 1b6S- 98-24-9 ((Mmaruee) D DIPODOMYS MERRIAM/ (No Embs.) 10, 2 NEeoToMA (No EMBs.) %30- 140- 37-18 LEPIDA 784- 127- 0-76 DIXIE STATE pare (sow ¢ANYoN), +480 FT, WASHINGTON CO, vS MAY 796% 71, & ERETHIZON DokSATUM Skutl onlY UTAH E. ONYoN ITINERAEY 196 7o APRIL 2 MILES NE OF SALTAIR, $200 FT,, SALT LAKE (0., VTAH MoTORED NORTH HIGHWAY 40 DESEFT, 4 MILE OFF oNTO THE AL/CALI LAB INSTRUCTOR, WAYNE SMITH, DISTIPIBYVTED TRAPS AND SET oUT THICEE PA/RS oF VS IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, ANN BoYl€e AND SPECIALS | LAID W/TH ovoT YS MVSEUM PEANUT —- BUTTE R- CATMEAL BAIT AND M/SCELLANE OVS FINGERS AMONG THE SHAD SCALE AND RABBIT BRUSH IN A LINE RUNNING STRAIGHT NoRTHWEST, PART OF A CANMI§ SKULL WAS FOUND IN AbbDITION To A 1) APRIC DdUCk’S FooT, | WAS ONE OF THE DETESTAS8LE TRAITORS THAT DIDN°T SHoW Ve THE OF NEXT DAWN CATCH. WAS / ONE MORNING To Go ONLY AT pitle THE UVP ove KENoW THAT DIPODOMYS ODI IN ove LINE WHItH | MY FIRST SPECIMEN, CRACL THELE CAVEHT PYT vP AS E. ONYON 19b6r ITINERARY DIXIE STATE PARE (SNOW CAWYow), ZY MAY %950 FT, ARRIVED WASHINGTON Co., UTAH JUST BEFORE DUSK, AND ANN Boyle AND |( SET OUT WITH DEAN STOCK, NATIVE oF THE AREA, To LAY OvT ABovuT SPECIALS S RAT MoST BEW/LDERING Live! WE PLACED IN Close LARGE | ANb 65 MVSEUM THe REp SAND THE TRAPS WITH YUCCA OR /NA /NTRICATE SE. PROXIMITY OAK AND TRAPS THE PLANTS ON SAND STONE LEDGES, OATMEAL BAIT WAS USED, A LESSON IN BOTANICAL TAXONOMY WAS GIVEN ALONG THE WAY WHICH PRoVED To BE MoST ENLIGHTENING. WHEN ACL BUT DEAN STOCE THOoROVGHLY WAS LosT DESCENDING, AND CAMP WERE DARENESS WAS GLADLY | SIGHTED. LATER, WHEN /T WAS DARK ENoVEH To SEE TUST ABOUT NOTHING, “THE BoyS " ALL WENT BAT HUNTING. H. 4. HOGLE RETURNED AND KINDLY OFFERED V/CTOLIloVvSs ME A SHARE ITINERAIEY (Conrinved) DIXIE STATE PARK IN HIS KltO — A PIPISTRELLYS HESPERVS WHICH BECAME _MY SPECIMEN # 3; AfosEe PROMPTLY BseIGHT AND EARLY GATHER IN oUe TO TRAPS, AND WERE SOON ACCOMPANIED BY A FATHER DETECTED AND UNSVCCES8 FUL TWo SOME! IVLOoN SIMMONS AND PAVL peERereicic. THEIR Ald WAS To BE FEWARDED BY A SHARE IN OUR BOUNTEOVUS GAME WHICH INCLUDED _DOMYS NEOTOMA MERRIAMI CRINITVS, BEEN LEPIDA, ANDO ONE DIPo- PEROMYSCUS PELOoMYStVvS HAD TAKEN BY A RAT TeAP!/ LATER /N THE AFTERNOON, SOMEONE _SUGGESTED A TReucke RIDE To AN OASIS CALLED BEAVER DAM WASH — SpeciFi¢alry : 'Tezey’s FARM", 2-700 FT, WASHINGTON C0, UTAH AMD ABouT _40 OF THE MoST GRoTESQUE MILES IN Gop’S CovNTRY AWAY FROM Dixie STATE PARE — ok “Home", LARGE GovPp SPLIT VP ove CovERINGE E, ONYON ITINERARY 96> @ 75 MAY (Cowrinved) Beaver DAM WASH THE ENTIRE AREA. | WENT _UM DER STocK, DIRECTION NW A /M ANN BOYLE AND THe SUPERVISION OF DEAN DEAN’S DVvE To NowLan "SNAKE STORIES SESSioN" ABOARD TIKUCE, _AND WE EXAMINED THE SET WATELLESS IVE ovT ABOoVT _MVSEVM | HEADED 22 SPECIALS BoTTOM, WE OATMEAC- BAITED AND OPT/MISTICALLY DELIEGHTFYL FoR OVE BACK UTMOST THRoUGH T/IP-TOED We _SeruTINY AS WHAT FAUNA WITH EXISTED FLORA THE RETURN TRIP, ONE STLVILAGUS WAS Fore /NBONESIAN SHoT AND SAVED _PARASITOLOGICAL EXAMINATION. v6 MAY | BY 4:70 AM ALL THOSE CoEkcEed , INTO fETURNING To BEAVER WASH To GATHER VP THE DAM TRAPS _WELE FEEBLY ASSEMBLED, TH/S TIME CARS WERE TRANSPORT, To ®©& AND DEPARTED CARS _peseEeT TRAIL, THE MEANS oF 80 TWO LOADED Fore THE CORRUGATED UVPON oVR SECOND ARRIVAL AT “TEREY’S FARM,’ OPTIMISM HAD BEEN REPLACED BY NAVSEA | ONYON Ei -fy ITINERARY 76 MAY (@owrinved) BEAVER DAM WASH DVE To SEMI-CIRCULAR CANAL MALAFTER GATHERING IN FUNCTION, THe TRAPS, ComMPLETE PESSIMISM REIGNED, SINCE THe CATCH WAS +? TRAPS WE _MereRiAMl( AND 1M HAS HAD oNME dDIPODOMYS ONE NEOTOMA TAIL. CoNVINCED THAT BEEN OUT OF ovr MEAGER. EXTREMELY TRAINING DEAN THE STOCK MAMMALS oF BEAVER DAM WASH HOW NoT To Get CaAVGHT! MosT oF over TRAPS WERE SPRUNG AND ALouND. DRAGGED HAD BEEN DIXi€ STATE PARE (sow Canton), ¥4S0 FT, WASHINGTON €0,. UTAH AbovT 15 FT. FROM CAMP AREA, A AS HAV/ING ELETHIZON SUBMITTED ovR SKULL CENTRAL IDENTIFIED BELONGED WAS Found, IT AS To AN AND | SPECIMEN # 77. AFTER LuvCH, Music WAS MERRILY _ CREATED AS Dk. DYUCRANT THE LoCAL fePTILES AND ATTKACTED D)D/8S COURAGED [TINE RARY (contrive d) THe LotcAt MAMMALS. AS A_ FESULT, TRAPPING WAS DOWE LITTLE THIS SATURDAY EVENING. CAMP WAS BROKEN, AND OW WE HEADED FoR ZION’S NATIONAL PARK To SéE | DOMESTICATED EXTREMELY EVTAMIAS AND CITELLVS VARIE GATYS. SoME (THEY WELE FoND OF FRITOS. ) E. ONYON a 196r DIPopoMYS JT Apeic ODI 3 MILES NE. OF SALTAIR, 4200 FT, SALT LAE @0.. UTAH ALEAL/NE DESERT OF SHADSCALE AND W. SMITH RABBIT BeVSH [No FURTHER DATA PE ROMYSCV§ MAN(CULATVS 17 MAY 6,5 MILES NE. OF TVUNCTION oF OPHIR CANYON RoAD AND HIGHWAY 73, OAURRH MTNS., FSOOFT, TOOELE W. ToHNSON CO.. UTAH [wo FveTHeR DATA\ E. ONYON @ 776) PIPISTRELLUS 4 MAY HESPERVS SNow CANYON, DIXIE STATE PARK, 7450 FT.. WASHINGTON CO, H.H.HOGLE ONE ovT oF TWO SPECIMENS AT Dusk SE oF CENTIAL GROUND BY H.H. HOGLE. UTAH SHOT CAMP- PEROMYSCUS CRINITVS SWoW CAN Yon, DIXIE STATE PREF, 2950 FT. WASHINGTON Co, UTAH ONE OVT OF S/K SPECIMENS TAKEN ON A LINE EXTENDING SE OF CENTRAL CAMP EeROUND /N FED Loose AND SAND YUCccA.: AMONG OAF, SAGE, DIPODOMYS MERLAM | SNow CANYON, 2950 FT, DIXIE STATE WASHINGTON CO, PARE , UTAH ONE OUT OF FIVE SPECIMENS TAFEN ON A LINE EXTENDING SE. OF CAMPGROUND (N_ FED CENTRAL SAND (Loose) AMONG OAK, SAGE, AND YUCCA. TERRY’S FARM, PEAVER DAM WASH, +700 FT. WASHINGTON CO, (40 MILES FROM DIXIE UTAH STATE Pare) SINGLE SPECIMEN (AND ONLY SPEC/— MEN JN A LINE OF >> TRAPS) TAKEN IN Covered SHvBS, A [IVER WITH BoTTOM SMALL AKEA Willow- Like SNOW NEOTOMA LEPIDA CANTON, DIXIE STATE PALF, 7950 FT, WASHINGTON Co, UTAH TWo SPEC/MENS OUT OF THEE TALEN ON A LINE EXTENDING SE. OF GENTRAL CAMPGROUND /N ED Loose AMONG OAK, SAGE, SAND AND YueceA WHERE MANY NESTING WERE oBSERVED, SITES TERRY'S FARM, #00 WASHINGTON CO, OF SEVERAL ONE ON FT, BEAVER DAM WASH, A LINE SPECIMENS RUNNING THE FARM IN CoTTONWOODS. DENSE NORTH UTAH TAKEN FROM W/LLOWS AND E. ONYON W@® 7767 26 MAY PEI20o GNATHUS FoleMoS8vs TEeeY’S FARM, BEAVER DAM WASH, +00 FT, OF MANY ONE ON WASHINGTON CO, A LINE THe FARM /{N COTTONWOODS. SPECIMENS RUNNING DENSE UTAH TAKEN NORTH FoM W/LLOWS AND