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Oct 19, 1933 cont.
help in game area. Gave us a cabin to use for night arriving there at 10:00 pm.
Oct 20, 1933
Visit with Rauger Robe and Foreman Alan found they had started gopher control on their own and were doing things backward. Keyes gave foreman some lessons - in bait mixing placement & trapping. Robe very much interested in predating work & brot thru members of the local chamber of commerce to talk to us about raising funds. etc. Left Big Bear dist at 10:30 AM after talking with these men and going over gopher areas. Squirrel work good & general satisfaction expressed by ranger & citizens. Called at Forest Office at San Bernadino but Cronemiller out. Dropped Meville and went on to San Diego stopping at San Marcos to see Mr & Mrs Bailey who seemed delighted to see me. Arrived San Diego at 9:30 pm. Called La Force & made appointments and also called Glidden and made an evening appointment with him for tomorrow night
Oct 21, 1933
Out on Cleveland N. F with La Force, Messenger & Keyes. Saw heavy gopher infestation on many hundreds of acres in the Laguna district. It is best, & most necessary gopher project I've seen in Southern California. Saw a lage cross sections of squirrel project and plenty of signs of previous activity. Not many squirrels in evidence - perhaps due partly to aestivation & partly to control operations. Saw many horned larks in