S.L. Wall 1971

Student field notes from zoology classes in 1971

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Ao Hag £I2F S” Poromyacne pnantcutealirg 136-68-20-(6 Maps LO Mla, (770 DS” ferongctan Ares 1/F¥O-$7-22-ay Kanze thdgrno. , 6000' Wihland Co, blak Al Mag 197/ oe feromyeens Omdern (169-37-20-/6 ITineeaty fF sidi a 1971 e Wall 8 miles west of Faust, 6000 ft., Tooele Co... Utah.. T75—R6W Sec, 22-27.. Drove weston dirt-road to -Onaqui -Mts..— The road follows a small valley through ~ the Onagqui Mountain Range. The vegetation of the valley is pinon pine ( Pinus monovhylla end Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma) with a big sage brush (Artemisia tridentate) and mixed grass habitat. §£ff Also thereare _ a few Box Elder trees (Acer Negundo) along the small stream that runs down the valley. _I made camp about a mile above the. spring.. About 6:00 p.m., I drove back_ to the spring and set 50 museaum specials_ and 14 regular mouse transbaited. with —— peanutbutter and rolled oats.. The. _traps:were set on an I shapeabout 4!- _ apart. Bg The traps were set in sage brush, around thespring, across road,and_ along stream—bank,._-. Sg ae eeee There were signs of gophersdigging§& around the spring, and I found a burrow 4 Ao .L. Wall SOE. that had fresh dirt pushed up around it, and I put three tre2D S around the entraances fT noted signs: of rabbit pellets around Sage brush. Also small places that were § dug up as if a small mammal were looking for seeds or roots,. 50 museum sveciaals and 14 regular mouse traps were set insame place. Two § f aes sprung, but did not catch anything. One trap had about +" of tail _in it; the other had nothing. Walked northwest up gully from spring | with shotgun to see if I could collect anything. I shot one Entamias minimus (least chipmunk) .. I shot it teooclose “and was not able to salvage the animal, — —_l_saw—several morebut—was-not able to collect one. are ee The area where ee shot the chipmunk _was' a rock outcropping in the bottom of ESLWEetc -the—cully,_tI-found several seate of ss bobcat... I ttok a picture to make a positive identification. ==. oo mene onaoag NN se Ertan meee $e Se oreo -I_saw several piles of deer droppings & rs JL. Wall and numerous tracks but was not able to ~— see any deer. _ 4:00 p.m. The low temperature was 30°F @ the high was 61°F. Wind 2-10 MOP .H.. canyon. Gown | It is clouding up from the west. 2 miles west of highway 73 & 68 junc-— tion, 4700 feet, Utah Co., Utah. Stopped en north eice of highway. 1 oe was accempanied by Bill Wahlen from Ogden, | Utah. We walked along an irrigation canal looking for Microtus perinsylvanicus that _ I had-seen along there before..__-_1The banks of the canal were covered with holes of the voles.._The grass was honeycombed with run— ways, but we still did not see an animal..._ Weturned around and crossed _to-the other— _Side of the canal and startedwalking back, _ | We jumped a vole in the short grass, and I | wae ableto catch it with my hands. It CS any EERS was a young one about60 mmtotal.I killed it and put it into. the collection bag. Rae: ee tgcme etme | About 50! further on, we jumped anotherone. fj I caught this one and found it was an adult. 50' further on, I caught one more. About CO' from there was an old board that we turned over and caught a Peromysius manicul-— atus. We also jumped a pheasant and a black- tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus). 8 miles west of Faust, 6000', Tooele Co., Utah T/5-R6W Sec. 22-27 We mede camp one mile above the spring. _ We went back-to the spring and dug into the gopher burrow to set three gopher traps... The traps were placed about 15' apart and _ secured with bailingwire to 3' limbs that | —wereabout—1+'"_diameter.—_‘the—traps_were—__ placed about 2“ in the burrows and the _ burrows were then covered with oldcow chips. Wethen wenteastfrom thespring,across Seetoreeee the road. herewe set 25 museamm specials, baited with rolled oatsand peanut butter. Thetraps were set at the bottom of the streambank, about5-7 feet apart. a a es 2 miles: weist of Faust,5000", Tooele J Ge... Uvean.:” TiS-RoW-sec., 50,. The vegetation here is big sage (Artemisia tridentata), shadscale (several species of Atriplex), bluebunch wheatgrass, ( Agropyron spicatum), sheep fescue (Festuca ovina),. winter fat,.(Burotia Ianata), and June grass (Bromus: teclorum).. We stopped and set out 25 museum specialsi™ baited the game as above... These traps were get in a_straight line due northfrom the _ _road, spaced about 10' apart,. We went > Mile further down the road and set out the last 14 traps. These were ewan regular mouse traps baited and set as the —+- above.. _We road hunted for about.two hours in _hopesofcatching some Dipodumys:or Peroenathus but were not successful. _ expe We counted | 25black-tailed jackrabbits(Lepus californwere cn ee eames, Saher sean malienaeterapiaena | icus) in those two: hours. We-: returnedto camp-and-—had_a—snort-—oef—_— _“medicnalalcohbl" and went tobed. Co., im le oe To ', 00 60 t, us Fa of st we s le mi 8 om —~s 1Uvah,. T/S-R6W Sec. 22-27,< aepence me & Seerceee seers caaenl —s ~ meas Sas = thy AeA hee eee Bode. AN retest yr a= -s oo =e <_< Se Wall LOTI Checked popher traps at spring--had one valley gopher (Thomomys: bottae).. We set 29 Apr. the gopher traps again in the same place. Checked museum specials and had 5 Pero-—_ myscus maniulatus, and? Peromyseus formos We collected the traps: and went to the other —_sets.. 2 miles west of Faust, 5000' Tooele _ Co., Utah T/S-R5W Sec. 30 Checked the first 25 traps we set the night before and we had 5 peromyscus- manie— _culatus,. We collected the trapsandmoved _to the last 14.. In these traps, wehad but one Peromyscus maniculatus. We collected these traps and drove back to Cate wee eg ee _ ee _8 miles west of Faust, 6000",Tooele _Co., Utah, T/S-ROW See. 22-27. _ meream sinet mserucsine er a a We drove to spring and walked up gully ee northwest from spring. This area is heavily & ee _covered with Utah juniper and pinon pine J<its 1971 Wall with big sage and mixed grasses and scrubs. a There are rock outcroppings that make ideal ™ places for rodents to nest. We saw a pair of hawks sitting in a tree tom but were unable to identify them. A few yards more up the gully, we saw a nest in a tree. ae [ climbed up to it and found that it was an old hawk'snest. There were dozens of bone parts lying under the tree, but all JT could make out was some rabbit bones and jaw bones of Dipodomys..—-- We noticed that around the base of. the tree, the ground was covered withnuts and seeds that had been opened by Chipmunks (Emtemias). We started lookingfurther ahead and it was not very longbefore we started seeing chipmunks, We "fringed" __ three ofthese with our12gauge shotguns Ee AE Se a end—_put—them—in-the collectionbag, ._ We saw no other kinds ofanimals,but did-see a coyote's tracks andstools, = I was surprised to see thesebecauseout on the flat there was evidence of heavy use by—sheep-—for_winter—range,—___—____§ Cais Seicetiieeeeeetne iSttiechatne ieeedear temenesenaen deaiidiaaeech. ah teeeastiaetimmnedtaieeelikdineninaehcnmemnenmemmmenssensincetieedhamdaaecarcaeetaecate We started ba&k by way of the ridge TOD dae ea Just before we got to the road, we found some gopher mounds that looked very fresh. This seemed a little unusual as this ridge top had very shallow soil. @ Also the soil was heavily eraanulated with very course regosols. We went back to the spring to check the gopher traps and found another valley _ gopher (Thomomys: bottae) in one trap. _We noticed several dove around the Spring everytime we approached. This: would seem to indicate that the smallstream ah. the valley goes: dry a little later in the — Summer andthese birds: are usedto water-_ ing at this spring, We returned from the spring to break _ campat 4:30 p.m. The low temperature BNR SR Sese a was 28°Fand thehighwas 63°F--nowind-| Clouds building inthe west.. We ran into heavy snow on theway in this trip, as much | ————— 7 pr RY AS OST Hee ea RAR reat paqpatusajedagenen 2 ROTI ANNSANC re ea Se a A aaronenueSm _8 niles: west of Paust. -6000",. Tooele_ Co. Utah ‘T/5-ROW ‘Sec. 22-27 >A . RN ed eta . ee, Ch os a ee TAA esE Ne nee eo Seceee ee aeeee een ol O Returned to same camp as before, one OF fT mile above spring--accompanied by Lance Foster of West Jordon, Utah. We set out 15 museum specials at sprin Ce a 9 along stream bank, baited with peanut The traps were butter and rolled oats. set 10' pattern. avart in a northwest, southeast, We then Motored to the sagebrush area aD s 5 miles west of Faust, 5000', Tooele Co... Utah. T7S-RSW: Sec.. 50 Drove down: to a gully that was: in an an ae __ activecutting stage...The gully was. about 15-20' wide and 10' deep.. There = were several holes in the bank that looked as if they werebeing used. We set ed trapsalong the northbank about5' apart. 2 ACTE m or om tt bo e th in t se we s ap tr 19 r he The ot the gully heading west, also 5' part. p e e h s f o d a e h u 0 4 o t 0 0 3 We noticed aceon in the area. Alsothere was a sheep- x _.shearing camp on the highway wevhen we came in this time. » tee" Se PND es NA ee PR tee Settee Dee ene adEe am We drove back to the spring to set the last 6 museum specials. 8 miles west of Faust, 6000', Tooele COas: Utah. T7S-R6W: See. 222 27 We had spotted a pack rat'snest on the northeastern side of the valley that _we wanted to set some traps around. The Jf nest was about 30U' up the side of the am canyon under a pinon pine tree. We set 6 museum specials around the nest. It wag getting dark about this time, so Secsunol we Started down. We were about half. _way down wnen some coyotes: (Canis Latraus) started howling and yapping. This.con—- _ firmed my earlier find of coyote tracks: _ ondstools...-Wetriedcallingthen in eloser with a varmitcall, but were _ _unsuccessful. ee _Wewent the restofthewaydown the ee eeeYs neta pe Susciegiee hill in the dark and back tothe pickum.—_§ We drove the roads for about2%hours_ oo a LOOK ie Hor Dipodomys angPerognathus. ff oWe ‘saw49: blacktailed jackrabbits in 11 this time... We spotted one Dipodumys orc Perognathus.. We were unable to catch it to make a postive identification, We returned to camp and set out three gopher traps around camp in some burrows that I noticed before. traps were set lO" The apart and covered with cow chips... We then sacked out for the rest of the night. A) 7)... 8 mites west of Faust, 6000! ,» tooele Co., Utah. T7S—-R6W Sec.22-27 ae Drove to spring to check traps. We had 3 Peromyscus maniculatus and 2 __Perognathus formosus. We then climbed _ ___the hill to.check the trans sround the = pack rats nest.—We-had_eaughtone Peromyscus _maniculatur and onePeromyscus — __turei but_no Neotoma. Wehad brought _the shovel along so we starteddigging out—thenest.._The neg+ was—empty,—_we—-—___ we collected the travs and returned to the pick-up and drove to the other traps. = = — ee Sate a or . . a . <=2 = oe 3 5 miles west of Faust, 5000*, Tooele Co., Utah TYS-R5W Sec. 30 We checked the traps around the gully. and Found that we had caught 1 Dipodomys microps and 6 Peromyscus maniculatus. The Divodumys was tne first I had caught and the trap caught it right across the skull _crushing it. z * ae We collected the traps and I got the shovel to try to dig out some promisinglooking burrows in the banks of the gully. We-spent—about two hours digging before we gave up as a waste of time. we then _ started walking eiong the banks of the gully with our shotguns. The place was _ crawling with minimus. We "fringed* the area andgot 4. Then wereturned tothe _ had several large holes init. This looked __like the work of a badger (Taxidae taxus) but we were unable to find tracks. We_ |__returned to the pickup anddrove back-to—_ _breakcamp.. eJ.L. Wall 1971 8 miles: west of Faust, 6000' Tooele Co., T7S-ROW Sec. ¢2-27 We had been having rain showers all day, and the road was muddy. We checkedfff the gopher traps when we got back to camp but found nothing in them. As we were breaking camp, I lTooked up the side of the | hill t byDY Camp camp ana and Saw saw aa PoCcK rock oquirre: suuirrel (Citellus variegatus) foraging around on_ the hillside... I grabed my shotgun and — raced up the hillside and shot We it. =tan ong A eaking coer eho317 ae 58 high, F 32 temperature, Low Q 3 O : ; nn F, rain showerswith 5m.p.h. windfrom thesouth. ° _2 mileswest ofPavant Butte, 5700', eraSy SNOO norm NRE pe a MEETS __MillardCo.,Utah T19S-R8W ree aAS RRSRR SS REE TERRA __ Rill White, Bob Randolf and myself _—«—‘*il __were onthe waytothe Desert Experimental aoe Range Station. 12 miles southof Deseret, §f _Utahon highway 257, we stopped to collect 4 Citillustownsendi from the Sideof Pre omeee the highway. _ aare mgr h t i w g n i l w a r c s a w e c a l The p KA cae bE IA OLE OE ee 14 Ee m 197/21 Wall They were in the short grass at. the side of the highway and also invery_ them.. Short black sage back away from the road. We also found anest of very young Syivilagus esuduboni. We found one that had an injured foot which was infected with maggots. We killed the injured one and one other one for the collection. We then drove on to the Range Station. | 45 miles west of Milford on highway 22% Desert Experimental Range Station _Hdgrs. 9900' Millard Co., Utah 1259-R17W “This washeadquarters for the20th _ through the 23d. of May. This was the annualmammalogy fieldtrip. _ We had9% _museumspecials,7 rattrapsand 5regu> er mouse traps, == é Se 5miles”norrth.ofPine ValleyHardpan, 5665! Millara box ee 724 S-R1LOW ae SRR aro _ine: iret day, we drove inte thesagd dunes toset trans. seems mie mepentine athe diicet_paoud ona amie Son aaah She dunes: were == eran eta ee, on ar oan a ae ea a sparsely covered with pvinon pine and Utah juniper, big sage, small shrubs and a few mixed grasses. We set 35 museum specials in an area | about 100 yards: square,, around the base of trees’ and shrubs. We continued up the dry stream bed. We spotted a pack rat's nest which we dug out. = We caught one peromyscus maniculatus but no Neotoma,. We continued up the stream bed another quarter of a mile and there we found the skeleton of a Lynx rufus that—had been— Skinned... We turned around at thispoint. and drove back to the highway and east to — the pass in the Wah WahMts. __10 miles southest of Pine Valley Hard—— —_pan, i 60008, MblVard co., UtahT26Sp1l6yw ESOi PA = We turned northsoff the highway end= «= wént about aquarterofa mile. There eae serene eeteercanes ee sone ees oa serene ACS TENTOREO: RESe SESe NNR _wefound some rock outcroppingsthat hag __ _Neotoma nests. Wesetthe otherseventy | _trapsin the outcroppings about 7!syor¢-——f mM J.L. Wall 19/1 All our traps on tnis trip were baited with peanut butter and rolled oats.. We _ then returned to headquarters to eat. That night, we drove the roads north of the hardpan spotlighting for Dipodomys and Perognothus.. We caught 3 Dipodomys ~opdil, ¢ Dipodomys microps and one Ferra genothus longimembris. jackrabbits 21 May We saw 27 blacktail in the three hours we were out. 5 mites north of Pine Valley Hardpan, 5665', Millard Co., Uteh T24S-R16W We drove to our traps in the dunes and “4 letomyseus Teuer eee foundthat wehad caught 9 Beromyscus | maniculatus and 1 Pilodomys ordii. We picked up the traps and drove: to.the: rock outcroppings... 10 miles southeas+ of Pine Valley Hard- pan, 6000',MiliardCo., UtahT26S-RI6W SS nS ee NaeR Here we had a very poor showing of Seenener insteadacento anecree ovine eeaaronae (MR aSa ee animals caught. We caughtonly two _Neotona lepia(onea juvenile), and bs CR “Peromyscus maniculatus. Wedrove back. to camp to motint animals, an RENNES pe: re) hes 3 pe eer Se > me ire = if 5.0. Wall F TO7n 4 miles west of Desert Experimental Range Hdgrs.., 6000', Millard Co.., Utah T25S-—RISW About 5:00 p.m., we drove west low range of mountains and set 60 t1 including 3 rat traps and 3 mouse in rock outcroppings. signs of Neotoma nests... There were We then drove _to Mt., Home Spring about 8:50 p.m. cOmiles southwest of Desert Experimen—_ _tal Range Hders.,. 6500! , Millard Co.,, Utah, _ 725S-R19OW— Thisarea wasLS out of the Experimental |Range area... On thewaytoMt. Home.° |Springs,. we saw dozens of Ammospermophilus | Jeucurus, ._We "fringed" two with the shot—_ gunsand: -put-them—in--the-eolleetion bag.—— This: was about two miles,southwest of 2 RA SIR TS OE aERNE OR ee ~ reper mace peer: stinimnbrrtenitientesonancanaicnbianl aes eres: the ee Aboutonemile further“OR, Sc RRSr tenant eaetenal _we found 3 coyotes that had been killed SSS RA Om TSNRN oe SEE. pmo Ba NO EE EES. and thrown in a pile with their scalps we ere Sueane ne ae morons — Seer ce nee oe Ae in 3" he ti Wall 1971 The area was sage brush and shadscale wi thi with-very little-else.It-looked like ———_-@ a lawnmower had cut everything right to the ground. All the trees: were highlined ~-io about 5"... This: range had been deyage tated byover-grazing.. We got to the spring and found a ary stream bed that had cut through the bed-— rock.. This was the only area that had been saved from over-grazing because... = animals could not get into thie: area. We found good signs of Neotoma nests,. So we ‘set out the Jast A rat trang and--ail the 38 museum specials and-regular——— mouse traps. We found a hawk's nest that was being used and the ground under it waslittered — _with bone parts. Wethen returned to ANA TESARSE” SOE NRE REN ARREARS headquarters. 25 RNRO PRRC emeraye wr so em ees rarer eee sees a omnes A SAA TRE ARRAN oS NESAA NRSRR8ae NSReam | _____4 niles: west of Desert Experimental@ Range Hdqurs., 6000', MillardCo.,-Utah,__—_Im cule eea ca aN SF Fag R men arate ter ec SeeNn Sen ea RK eg a _Of the60 traps we set out we hadaq ' wih ry) a x—_ ae 5 Y= <5 " cP > s sey 2 Set os «eS ——— — sé es = —s ee ——el eee — . J SL. Wall very poor snowing. We had 3 Peromyscus crinitus and that was all. A little above our traps, we found a raven's nest with 5 young that still had their eyes closed and had no feathers. The nest was limed with old sheep wool. We drove from there to Mt. Home Spring... _20 miles southwest of Desert ExperiMental Renge Hdors., 6500". Millard Ca. Utah. T258=R19W «Here we had..betterluck butenot am2 | _ ,g000 aswe hoped for. We had6 Peromyscus maniculatus,. one had beenhalf eaten, and 1 Neotoma lepida.. We collected traps: anddrove back to do ourmounting. On the way back we turned toward reece eres a rio eS a Nevada and drovedown thehighway afew. Miles... We spotted a hawk'snest built within a hundred yards of the road on a ere oe Re AE A REEMA SES SN Eat _5* mound of dirt.The femalehawk wag ES A (a 2 ARRe Seea on the nest wnen we drove up.We took Pa RSEE NS SRE OEE some pictures before we got out while she —§f was still_on_tnenest._When we got-out, —_§ 20 aJ.L. Wall 1971 She flew. The nest had two young hawks that were about 3 weeks old. The female bird was soon joined by the male and the female kept dive-bombingus. We soon drove on and in a half a mile found another hawk's nest. This one had 43 young that were older than the last nest. The female flew as soon as we drove up. We got out and foundthattnefemale _—if was feeding a leucmus to her young. We _took several pictures and then drove back to headquarters. That night we did alittle spotlighting but did not take any new animals, The nextday, 23 of May,—wedrove back—_—_ “to Salt Lake. ceengnecoer ast sansa a ee he 2ERRee OPN RETA See NS a OER wee ae athe — Se Nae Fe eet ae ee a oe — oe So as a ema on etcanetaes we nr — oan ae a send ase ~ . s — a —a Wall Lo? 1 eo adhe = i. eh gee A ener~ ne im Nr olya . 1° Se . — — . ae ae ed ca i ——== + ar Berges bop eeas ee at Ae & Se eect epeeceestenaeieeteeell Peed ey Ey ae rs aes ol — ae __Microtus pennsylvanicus 2 miles west of hignway junction Pe ory, | Cd GS, 4700',”, Utah Co., Disk 2 specimens, J.L.W. #1 were taken in short grass along a canal bank. Grasg along canal bank had been burned off about 4 weeks: before... I don't know what this has done to the population, but at the time I was there: it did not seem to have hurt it that much, _ Oa ae Say’ aes ee x 2 a Oo uie SH er <A :a 5s eo S : oe eoS eal Pt e & ——Ag eS - ” ae Perognathus formosus Watt LOT 1 8 miles west of Faust, 6000! ,. 23 Apr. Tooele Col, Utah Four specimens, J.L.W. #2, were. taken from museum speciais. These were taken along a dry stream bed.. The other side of the stream wags ahill- side that was covered with Utah juniper and pinon pine. There was nothing in the cheek pouches. This might indicate con the that this was: one of the first al ee ReSe a _out—in the evening.. animals — a ee — —_— ome = anh — os -— a a ae — —— a ma eel a — - = = aa ee — ne — pom ere Sar RN, 7 soe ec see Sea er ene tenetweens Acemtearteass Teena: —e =~ ~_ Saree cma Naor tnseaARMAS eR sree Jel. Wall eo Thomomys’ botteae | 1971 = 8 miles west of Faust, 6000", Tooele é® eo. Apr... Co., Utah Single specimen, J.L.W. #3, was taken from an underground burrow. This animal was taken from spring area... This area is in the bottom of the small valley and has the best soil for burrowing and for 2 ap {1 Toot, Sees ee ee I first noticed the dirt pushed into | mounds... | There was’ an opening in one moundthat had not been fiiledinyeu, fhe next morning, itwas filled in, __ These valley bottoms and one ridge top ——— are the only places: I have seen gophers _in the west desert. 5 J 9%” L * Wal LOT! E Thomomys: bottae 8 miles west of Faust, 6000', Tooele 28 Apr. CO.«; Utah Single specimen, J.L.W. from under ground burrow. #4, was taken This animel was: taken in same area as J.L.W. #3, about 10" from where J.L.W.#3 was trapped. The cheek pouches of both animals were _ empty. — Both animals were in a lactating stage.. PPO ROR RENE ST —_ — ne — brs Ps Seer scireaers e — wantan nema na ~ ‘4 ute Dipodomys microps JL. Wall Lott 5 miles west of Faust,. 5000',. Tooele Co... Utah 6 May Single specimen, J.L.W. #5, was taken in & huseum special’. The area was low. = sage brush with large gully cutt ing through it. I did not sere any of these | animals at all’ on the roads at nignt. I don't know if they are as numerous as other animals in this area. Tnic anime!had a. tick on the: tom 2 of the head. Also the skull wascrushed _ _by.the: tram... neal a ws. or ~~. wee ere — REE ~~ soem. — ST NR ME SA LO REN SRS _ wae awe = me. ~ — ~ Se ore ee aa nee eee: ane: ~~ me os oa — EI gE egrets ~ a = are RR RE I ANR A NS -_ nee nea re aa a a sees we orm om ne aeramemsalatic a ~ —. a aares. aw am oda aene wee one ~ annens se see: eo ere oes a Peromyscus tru¢i és 6 May S miles west of Faust, 6000! » Tooele Co. Utah Single specimen, J.L.W. #6, was taken in a museum special, This animal was taken along a dry stream bank at the bottom of a hill, This snimal had a heavy infestation of ticks. The animal did not seem to be lactating, _ ED % lig: WEL. ERutamias minimus L971 5 miles west of Faust, 6 May 5000', Tooele Co.,. Utan i specimens, J.L.W. #7, were taken by shotgun. 4 of the species were taken in the above area, which is all gage brush with no trees. Aliso 3 of this species were taken in the general area of the spring in the valley.. —_These little animals: I have seen in all sorte of habitat. This animal was lactating when shot. There was notning in the cheek pouches,_ — — meee Le. SaaS JL. Walt 1971 7 May | ht é Citillus variegatus 3 e se 8 miles: west ofFaust,. 6000', Tooele Co., Utah Single specimen, J.L.W. #8, was: taken by shotgun. This. animal. was-seen foraging on a hillside. When I shot hershe was lactating. Her cheek pouches: were stuffed with seeds... The geeds looked like wneat seedand oat seed, I could see no plants aroundthat would bear seeds of this: type. ce ee This animal did not ran omntil) 7 | was:about 40 yards away.She did not_ seem to run very fast. I don't know if she was naturally slow or was not airaia of me. — am Toh 7 Ac <n 4 — oe SF<KS ee ae: Ga a Citillus Townsendi 2 miles west of Pavant Butte, high- way .257,. 5700", Millard Col, Utah 4 specimens, J.L.W.. #9, were taken by shotgun. This: area was néavdliy infested with this animal. They seem to be located near this highway and ee too '‘They far fromsome source of weers wiaioa (a very sioue: sage brush and snort The burrows in the sage brusn erass. were cleared for about 10' around each One 7 is a -— an al oe am -_ — ~- ia a aa ae a _— “~ ee vo ae oraes aanemcee _ a = siniiipieitiaitaciog S dou. 1971 SS i ~~ Ds y& - ee : = =e Se > ee SOF ca = SS = Wal] a — eo Me ae he ae a = wv SASASe Divodomys ordii : @& c 2 niles north or Pine Valley 820 may 1 ‘HBPapan, 5300", Mijtlarda €o.. Utah _ 4 specimens, J.L.W. #10, were taken. 5 specimens were taken_on the road Y at night and I was taken in a museum special. These animals taken on the road =f at night seem to be confused by the light.. road, By the number we saw on the this would indicate a heavy _ population of Dipodomys.. I suspect one of the reasons that thepopulations: are as high as Tey are is that there are fewerpredators in thisarea due to the number of sheep._ 2 ineeee sae SORES ae 5 Sak ede ees fiititea ie ok EEA DEE BER TES See & Pe dd Wall LOT Peromyscus maniculatus 5 miles north of Pine Valley 20 May Hardypan, 5665"; Millard Co, . tar 23 specimens, J.L.W. #11, were taken in all my trapping. These are like vr. mentioned in class, §.D. . Diirrant “Some times these animals are—the only thing between. you and total failure," These animals I found everywhere. _They seem to be animals around. one of the most common oe JL Wall 1971 Ne y ry rs ns oh at 55 ae Ye ea ae A 4 re . »See ies = ——= *< eer Finn = == , ———— Peromyscus ttmii 5 miles north of Pine Valley Hardpan, 6 May 5665', Millard Co., Utah 4A snecimens, J LW. #12. were taken. in museum specials. This animal seems to be darker, the-further west you get. The tail stripe was much darker... I have never caught _them any place but in pinon or juniper _ Arease on amar a ne me = ee a ao reereer edie ad MOLT Ea = 21 May. Peromyscus crinitus 4 miles west of Desert Experimental _ Range Hdgrs., 6,000' Millard Co., Utah 3 specimens, J.L.W. #13, were taken in museum specials. This animal seems to favor barren rock areas with little vegetation, _ ae mien savin = — ~. a meters ann eine erepeat peengnna etecatetiene eed a a Seen Bee ee ee ae a = ~— o a eae o