The purpose of this trip is trap and capture voles for our lab colony at UCR. Our field sampling involves setting 50-75 Sherman traps in open habitat (meadows, clearings). The voles will be captured and relocated to a room in the vivarium of UCR to start the live colony. The progenies of these wild caught voles will be used for a behavioral assay. We aim to capture 20 California voles (10 males and 10 females) per site for our lab colony. However, I anticipate this trip to be the first of many, as I do not expect to catch all 20 voles within the duration of one trip.

Approved