Field notes, v4224
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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.