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[[underlined]] June 10 [[/underlined]]. Caught a Neotoma albigula ^[[insertion]] at [[/insertion]] a nest under the rocks and photographed the nest & rat.  Dug out 2 N. micropus from cactus nests in the open and photographed one of the rats in an Opuntia arborescens & its house under the cactus. Photographed a ravens nest near the top of the cliff.
 
Climbed along the steep slope & found many little untouched spots where not even sheep [[strikethrough]] had [[/strikethrough]] have been & the grass & plants are untouched & the trees uncut. Ideal spots for [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] mule deer, which ought to be here & probably are farther back from railroad & settlement.

Nut pine & juniper cover the slope & the rocky edge at top. The country below & above is plains.

It rained hard & long in the night & was cloudy & windy & cold all day with fog & some drizzle through the day.

[[underlined]] June 11 [[/underlined]], Rained most of night and nearly all day. Cold and windy and we can neither trap nor travel.