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Inits, Sean
2005
journal
June 7 Pine Creek, class Natural Forest, class Co., CA (cont)
and searched for a hair under rocks along the stream.
The part of the stream above the trail was snow covered and
there was lots of water in the stream, so searching was
difficult and I didn't find anything. I hiked down
and went to another part of Roben's site 92, an
unnamed side canyon off Pine Creek to the north
(the further west of the two canyons he marked on
his map). The canyon is very narrow and had a lot
of water flowing through it, with lots of granite
rock. The dominant vegetation was willow, along with
some nettles. I found an adult female Hydromantes
platycephalus under a rock alongside the stream. I then
found another female further upstream under a rock in
the splash zone of a small cascade (SMR #28,
37.37638°N, 118.68382°W (WG584, 30m acc.), 2287m elv.).
I got swab samples from both these animals. I
searched for about an hour, from 2-3 PM. I
returned at night and searched between the
following GPS points:
downstream - (37.37569°N, 118.68322°W (WG584, 7m acc.), 2262m elv.)
upstream - (37.37665°N, 118.68484°W (WG584, 52m acc.), 2321m elv.)
I stopped at the upstream end because the canyon
became nearly impassible, due to a waterfall and
some large boulders. I searched from 8:50 PM - 12:25 AM