Field notes, v4225
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Ronto, Bear 2006 Journal Volcan Chicalal and Volcan Siote Orejos, Depto. Izuetaltenango, Guatemala (cont.) Aug. 27 ... to walk around the lake, flipping and opening logs and flipping the few rocks we saw. The forest was in great condition and there were many big trees with some bromeliads (which we didn't open) and a lot of bamboo. Conditions seemed perfect, but we found nothing from 1130-1300. Antonio's finally found an adult Pseudoeurycea [illegible] under the trunk of a big log on the far side of the lake (14.78755°N, 91.65855°W [WGS84, 19m acc.], 2722m elev.). We searched until about 1500, with a 40 min lunch break but found nothing more. We searched in many excellent logs and CL was surprised not to see more salamanders. We walked back to the car and drove through Izuetaltenango and up to the radio towers on Volcan Siote Orejos. We searched in the open areas and cypress plantation/secondary forest at the top for ~40 min in a cold rain but found nothing (14.79280°N, 91.58773°W [WGS84, 6m acc.], 3104m elev.). There were some stumps to look in and the habitat looked OK. We drove down to ~2500m and searched for ~20 min but found nothing, and the habitat looked good. We drove to Xela, had dinner, and returned to San Marcos. Dave, Marshall and Ted had found 1 B. morio at Las Tules, but said the forest was gone. They found a P. dieg under a clump of mud in forest, 1 B. morio in a stump under trunk and a B. rzedowskii in a roadbank at Km 232.6 on the road from San Juan Ostuncalco to Palestina de los Altos.