Field notes, v1539
Page 253
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R.J. Raith 1956 Rana pretiosa Aug. 8 Hoh River, 550+ ft., Jefferson Co., Washington In hiking 5 1/2 miles up the Hoh River trail to the Happy Four shelter and back saw 2 individuals, one at about 10 AM and one at about 1:30 PM. Both were apparently at least several hundred yards from any water. One was in dry moss and the other in an equally dry situation. Both seemed quite active but uttered no vocal sound when handled. I took a Kodachrome of the first one after placing him on a log. In the evening at about 8:20 PM when it had just become dark in the "rain forest" my wife and I were back out on the same trail near the end of the road (i.e. at the Hoh Ranger Station and Campground) when she spotted another by using her flashlight. It was on the edge of a bare earth trail which was lined with bracken ferns. The earth was not not completely dried out but not moist either. Again it was several hundred yards to the nearest known water. The int. was retained and is R.J.R. 145.