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Ravito, Sean
2005
Journal
April 30 Near Sierra City, Sierra Co., CA (cont.)
some small [illegible] canyon oak trees looked all right for salamanders. I tried to get to an area near Packer Lake, where Marilyn indicated there might be a limestone outcrop, but the road was too snowy. There might still be an unknown allino salamander here, but nowhere I saw looked very promising. I camped where I collected the Ensatinia. The area had a lot of incense cedar, canyon live oak, and ponderosa pine.
May 22 Fletcher Hatchy Reservoir, Yosemite National Park, CA
Adana L, Charles L. and I hiked from O'Shaughnessy Dam along the north side of Fletcher Hatchy to Wapama Falls starting at 9PM. We saw too many Taricha to count. I wanted to look for H. platycephalus in the spray zone of the falls, but there was so much water we couldn't approach closely (though we got soaked trying). I searched for about 10 min but saw nothing (37.96349 N, 119.76699 W (WGS84, 11m acc.), 1122m elev). The habitat looked great, though, since the spray zone was large and there was plenty of granite. Shevata Falls, west of Wapama, looked to have good spray zone habitat also with less flow, but we didn't have time to climb up there.