First my apologies for the delay in summing; while I sent my summing
message
on May 20, it was not posted.
Many thanks to all who answered my request stated as follows:
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"I'd like to use my Magellan 315 GPS for summer field research in the
mountains in Montana and Wyoming. Is there software that will allow me
to download the waypoints I created in my GPS into a format suitable
(ASCII, dbf, or Excel format) for loading into ArcView. I am presently
using long-hand recording."
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I received many suggestions, summarized in 1 through 7 below.  I have
now used successfully GPS Utility XF 4.012, suggested in 5 and 7. This
is a shareware software package. Special thanks to Dr. Kerry Livengood
and Jennifer Hayward for the "cookbook recipes" in 6 and 7 respectively.

1. Use the Magellan 315 with the ESRI ArcPad.
2. Use the Wildflower GPS USA; it is the least expensive and has

waypoint management.
3. OziExplorer can handle a wide range of receivers, including the
Magellan 315. The full featured version cost US $75.00.available at
http://www.oziexplorer.com
4. Use the DataSend software available from Magellan. I hope it works.
5. Try GPS Utility available at http://www.gpsu.co.uk
6. The free program Waypoint+ available at
http://www.tapr.org/~kh2z/waypoint will download Magellans. Save the
file as a commas delimited file, then get a copy of the ArcView AVGarmin

script and import the file as Waypoint+. It works well and comes in as a

shape file.
7. Use GPS Utility XF 4.012 available at  http://www.gpsu.co.uk.  The
instructions on how to use GPS Utility
are at the following link:
http://www.wy.nrcs.usda.gov/wygis/pinedalegis/samples.html

Marcel Jouseau
jouse001@gold.tc.umn.edu