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by the rock pile. These are small and dark with black, dark
feet. 5 ...........and one [space left]. Baited up traps
for bearberry vole. Took Bendict Crossbill.
Red [handwritten]
May 30, 1930, Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Rain all day.
May 31, 1930, Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Took adult [male symbol] bearberry vole in some burrows, [Phenacomys intermedius levis] [editorial insertion by author] as adult [female symbol]
eating lupine and bearberry make very fine runways - midden
heaps and dry earth closets. Took [female symbol] Richard squirrel that had
completed moult.
June 1, 1930, Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Dull, occassional [occasional] showers. Broke camp.
June 2, 1930, Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Left Newgate 2.30, arrived Cranbrook 11.00. Left 1.30
arrived Radium Hot Springs 5.30 and stayed there, because Mrs.
[Hamilton Mack] Laing [Ethel Hart] ill.
Description of country around Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Kootenay River flows north and south through centre of
area covered. On each bank of this river is the usual
thick growth of black poplar (P. [Populus] trichocarpa) with some spruce
and juniper, On the nom flood areas. On the west side of the
river is a belt of jack pine and douglas fir with the jack pine
predominating. Directly west of our camp is an area of farm
land and back of that a short stretch, about a square mile, of
more or less open plain where the chief vegetation is the shrub
Kuntzia. In this area the Col. [Columbian] ground squirrel and pocket
gophers are very abundant and consequently most of the badger
work is confined to this area and for a short distance into the
surrounding woods.
This area is bordered on the west by an open forest of
douglas fir and western larch that rapidly becomes thicker and
changes its character as the altitude increases until in a few
miles it is a thick spruce and pine forest with a few douglas fir.
More to the northwest there is quite a lot of cultivated land
where the open forest has been cleared. The cultivated areas cling
closely to the course of Meadow Creek. This creek rises in
the mountains to the west and flows south and east receiving the
drainage from the Smith Lakes - two small bodies of water on the
Smith Ranch, - and continue to flow into the Kootenay a few hundred
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