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Jan 14
Marble Auleh area and Felicina Mtn, Marinso Co, CA
Last night cl drive from Berkeley to Arcavland and
then took the road south (J-132), and then turned into
the Bull Creek road towards Bruciling, cl stopped along
the road and searched a large area of limestone/marble
rocks that cl visited last year and thought looked good
for salamanders. cl found an Ensatina e. platensis
under a rock along the road (37. 73620°N, 120.01324°W
[WD584, 10 mace], 860m elev.) but found no other salamanders
in ~45 min of turning rocks. cl drive to Bagby and
camped at the campground. cl walked back along the road
along the Morced and searched for ~30 min on the
north-facing hillside, but found only an adult
B. diabolica (37. 60937°N, 120.12379°W [WD584, 21 mace],
324m elev.). cl camped in the rain and met Mike Sutton,
Brian Aulwag, Walter Fordoff, and Robert Wolf Cage in
Mudjies in the morning. We drove up to the Felicina Mtn
site where we found H. brewus last year (SMR19). We searched
the limestone deposit on top of the hill but found no
H. brewus, although conditions seemed good. Robert found
a J. torosa. We searched on the hillside near the cabin
on both sides of the road but found nothing that looked
like good habitat, just thick Chaparral. On the
way home, it started to thunder with lots of hail or
freezing rain, so cl didn't get the chance to look at
any more sites.