2. MOON 1987 Journal 73 17 May southeast of Goldstone Spring, Providence mountains, San Bernardino Co., CA. hissed at me and tried to crawl under a rock as I caught it (Species account: Gopher Snake). Up on top of the granite peak I was mobbed by a mass of small annoying flies that must have been in the rocks waiting for me. I still held the snake in my hand while I decided what to do with it -- I took a photo and let it go. I continued up the once wooded and burned ridge to the southeast toward the north-south running ridge in sec 5 of T9N R14E. I checked each rockpile and turned some fallen piñon trees looking for more critters. I found a few more fence lizards on rocky peaks and on a fallen pine; I have also seen side-blotched lizards just about everywhere except on the fence lizard occupied rockpiles. Where the fence lizards are common the Uta's (side blotched lizards) seem to occupy the smaller rocks or line on the ground near shrubs (Species account: Side-Blotched Lizard). cont'd.