1998 M.D. Maboq Journal Mendocino Co. n 39°23'48.7 W 123°41'35.4 12 August Redtail Cmpgrnd. Jackson State Forest 11 p.m. Arrived yesterday (11 August) at Pepperwood Reserve around camp is 5 p.m. This reserve is run 52 miles by Greg deNevers and owned in from by the cal. Academy of Sciences. Hwy. 20 Its located off Franz Valley turn off from 20 road which is about 7 miles East is 5.6 of Santa Rosa- 101 on Mark miles from West Springs Road. The habitat HWY 1 is a grassland-oak-chaparral mosaic. Some areas support Redwoods in canyons and there are a number of ephemeral ponds in the grasslands. Shawn Kuchta in Dave Wake's lab has started a mark recapture study on the newts in several of these ponds. We waited for Shawn to arrive at the Bechtel house until about 6°0pm. He was returning from Humboldt where he and Sharon Marks are studying larval morphology of newts. Shawn brought