  The construction of the first baryon operators for staggered lattice QCD
exploited the taste symmetry to emulate physical quark flavor; contemporary 2+1
flavor simulations explicitly include three physical quark flavors and
necessitate interpreting a valence sector with twelve quarks. After discussing
expected features of the resulting baryon spectrum, I consider the spectra of
operators transforming irreducibly under SU(3)xGTS, the direct product of
flavor SU(3) and the geometrical time-slice group of the 1-flavor staggered
theory. I then describe the construction of a set of maximally local baryon
operators transforming irreducibly under SU(3)xGTS and enumerate this set. In
principle, the operators listed here could be used to extract the masses of all
the lightest spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 baryon resonances of staggered QCD. Using
appropriate operators from this set in partially quenched simulations should
allow for particularly clean 2+1 flavor calculations of the masses of the
nucleon and the lightest decuplet.
