inito, Dean 2005 Journal January 22 Hite Cave, South Fork of the Merced River, Mariposa Co., CA Ted Paperfuss and I met Mike Sutton, a teacher from the Merced area who has experience with [illegible] H. brunnus, at the Jerseydale Ranger Station and drove to a locked gate on Jerseydale Rd. that Mike had the key to. We drove down a very rough and rocky dirt road to Marble Point (37°37'18.3"N, 119°50'19.8"W (NAD27,10m), 604m), a large outcrop of limestone overlooking the South Fork. We searched for H. brunnus for about 20 min. but there were only a few moist areas since it was mostly on a southern exposure. Other than being dry, the habitat looked suitable. Next, we drove further to Hite Cave, where Mike had previously found salamanders with Walter Jordoff. There wasn't any limestone that we saw, but the slope above the road was covered with shale rocks and lots of damp moss. Mike found a B. dialobius and Ted found an Ensatina eschscholtzii, both of which we kept. I think this is a range extension for B. dialobius but I'm not sure. I found two H. brunnus at about 1:30PM. The first, an adult female, was under a large rock in a big rock pile next to the road (the first of 2) that was either from mining or a landslide. The rock was on top of other rocks, none of which were limestone. The second one, an adult male, was about [illegible] 30m down the road, on the slope under a very mossy rock. The area had brookley, oak, poison oak and a few gray pines. We also saw two Taricha torosa that we didn't collect.