For the fourth year in a row, we conducted a mid-summer live-trapping survey for small mammals across the Osoyoos snake study site.  This year Jared Maida (sitting in the middle on the truck bumper) did a great job of organizing the gala event.  As always, captures were not high in the dry desert, although one site on the side of a hill produced a fair number of pocket mice.  With the trapping coinciding with the shortest nights of the year, everyone averaged about 4.5 hrs of sleep/night for three days, so a HUGE thanks to our super volunteers…

In the picture, left to right:  Jennifer (volunteer), Valerie (volunteer), Yours Truly, Kirstin (kneeling), Cole (volunteer), Jared, Janna (volunteer), and Steph (volunteer).