wt from 1947 wntil 1Sf9. Co far, we ennnot say thay thero has 2 ~s Se, yee ” been any Ghlorvable daunge . 2 7 « aye 4.9 to auything wo have leouhed at, Wnich « 4 exes : h 4 . +. ” om _ te erty? incluies the plants, the animals, tie Mangarco mice, Joemeretbits, and tha rentiics, cte, q wt tf The cevastation that was present inside a Oo * a & 3 1 _ & 5 ae the civcloe hors, which 45 now fonesd in--fonecd in in the carly t 3 + — 246° OP ne, 4 . +, . as a ~ os days by +? the Apry for senusity reaserns and4 mot necosuarliy be- earse of so the radiation, Le -3.t AS This had a vroe-invasion wattern, mus ~ « + ~ c 4 fe ke - Hot ww da 36 ad S mw Faas 0 t, “J * 2,38 “3 being ccolcgists but onservers, we observed such things as : the n ives, and so forth, bh 2 praivic First of all, we noticed that 4 ats te w& ay ey FZ < aa e8 3 Necsian thistle eane in Ze in predominnnes, copending on a the 2 rainfall, As soon as this happened, theropulaticn of the Kane Barco rats were on the gvense where the Russian thistle had me a Q < ” ALM of - . 4. mas ad dw, a J. w accumulated, The sand had drifted.° This was an ideal colicct- ing area fer us, but there were no damnsgcs that wo conld see, There was no activity observable in the animals hera. traces cnly up in this avoa (indicatinz). We found This is what tipped us offtoe the Cistance effect that we have ceen, just recently, in the last serics in HNeveda, emphasizing. t leas a ard many others here~--their organistion 9) Dr, Lindberg and myself, Norman French, Earl Herds is rovresented-- finished up the proszram in Nevada which lested for tho auratvion. 7 We are paxticulerly intorcested in the cevelopnent of lige as well as theo animals. ct 0 ~~ i 3 er might influence the accumulation of various isotones in the fad the cloud and its adjacent drift ever the landseape and how this