Davis, Sean 2006 Journal Big Pine Area, Barrel Spring and Charlie Canyon, Inyo National Forest, Inyo Co., CA March 31 I drove from Ridgecrest to Big Pine to look at some of Berham Pinkani's Hydromantes sites. I started at his site #83, about 2.6 road miles W of the intersection of County Rd and Reynolds Rd., along County Rd. I walked up the spring, which has trees and running water and the bottom lit quickly dries up and splits into 2 rocky canyons. I searched much of the area of both canyons, flipping rocks, but most areas seemed very marginal for salamanders (37.19072°N, 118.34339°W [WGS84, 10m acc.], 1269m elev.). Next I drove further along County Rd. to the mouth of the canyon 3.0 mi from the intersection with Reynolds Rd and hiked up it. This is part of Berham's site #86. The canyon had no flowing water but there was a vegetated area about halfway up with a few trees and some grass. I checked here but found nothing. I continued up the canyon as it narrowed, flipping rocks in what looked like water areas. I found an adult H. platycephalus female under a rock in a shaded moist area of the [illegible] canyon bottom (37.19136°N, 118.35412°W [WGS84, 10m acc.], 1414m elev.) and collected it (SMR [illegible]). There was no running or standing water here and no superior vegetation. I continued up the canyon and found a subadult, which I swatted (Big Pine [BPP] [illegible]) and a juvenile under rocks in a little moist dirt in the canyon wall. I am very surprised that the salamanders can survive in such