Joseph Grinnell, the founding director of U.C. Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, was a fanatic about taking notes. Put it all down, he would say. You might not think it's important but someone may.
Today, Grinnell's detailed, nearly century-old field notes about chipmunks and other small mammals in Yosemite National Park are revealing new insights about climate change in the Sierra Nevada, a subject I explore in an article in this Sunday's Bee.
Click on this link and step back in time as a colleague talks about Grinnell's archival obsession in the wilds of California: http://mvz.berkeley.edu/sounds/Russell_on_Grinnell.au
Believe it or not, you can even read Grinnell's hand-written Yosemite journals on line. They're available at:
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