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AMERICAN PIKA (Ochotona princeps) SURVEY FORM
(sample)
OBSERVER:
Connie Millar
Affiliation:
US Forest Service
Address:
800 Buchanan St
Phone:
510-559-6435
Albany, CA 94710
Email Address:
cmillar@fs.fed.us
OBSERVATION DATE:
July 4, 2008
SITE SURVEYED FOR __15__ minutes
SITE NAME:
Lundy Cyn
COUNTY:
Mono
SITE #:
LC-1
MTN RANGE:
Sierra Nevada
LOCAL REGION:
Moat Lake cirque
STATE:
CA
LAT °N (XX° X.xxx):
LONG °W (YYY° Y.yyy):
38° 3.210
119° 16.325
ASPECT:
211° (SW)
ELEV:
3159
m_X_ ft__
Estimated by:
GPS_X_
Map__ eMap (Topo, Google Earth)__
Other:
LANDFORM (see Millar & Westfall, 2007 if possible for specific rock-ice features):
Circle if:
talus [be specific to type if possible)
rock glacier
boulder stream
patterned ground
inselberg
eroded bedrock
anthropogenic rockfall
moraine
lava flow/lava cave
tephra
rock crevice
cliff face
Other and/or more landform detail:
Large boulder-stream talus field covers extensive slope; adjacent to wetland with abundant vegetation
SUBSTRATE:
Circle if:
granitic
metamorphic
sedimentary
igneous
More substrate detail:
PIKA, Circle if:
SEEN
HEARD
PIKA SIGN (below)
NO PIKA SIGN (after 30 min search)
PELLETS: fresh_X__ old__ few__ abundant_X_
COLLECTED Yes_X_
No___
Caecal feces observed ___ Y or N _X_
URINE SIGN: fresh (silver-white & smeary) _X__
old (chalk white & flakey) __
HAYPILE: present _X_ if yes, plant material green__ or brown _X_
Haypile absent___
Surrounding vegetation (plant species or plant community): Distance to live vegetation __50__m/ft
Salix lakeside community; Leptodactylon pungens, Artemesia spp, Ericameria suffruticosa, Symphoricarpus
spp.
Sign of other species?
Marmot
Sm Rodent
None
Other:
SITE PHOTOGRAPHED: Y_X_
N__
ADDITIONAL NOTES -- use back as needed

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