Rivito, Sean 2007 Journal Feb. 14-15 Hite Cove, S Fork Merced River and Hell Hollow, Mariposa Co., CA Ricardo Pereira and I drove out to Mariposa Co. to check his pitfall traps for Ensatina and to get more buccal swab samples for my project. We drove to the locked gate on the road to Hite Cove from Jerseydale, arriving at 7PM, and hiked down to the salamander locality. I got my data logger, which had clearly been moved around then replaced by someone, and it wasn't working anymore. The weather was cool and fairly humid, and the ground was quite moist since it rained a few days ago, so conditions seemed ideal. We searched from 20:[illegible]50-[illegible]22:20 and Ricardo found an adult female Hydromantes brunus under a rock on the east side of the path. I got buccal and ventral swabs from it (HC4), I found only 1 Ensatina e. xanthoptica out foraging, which I didn't collect. Surprised not to see more salamanders out. We hiked back up to the gate and camped. The next day, we checked Ricardo's traps at Shingle Hill, Marble Latch, Wagner Ridge and Kingsley and got a fair number of Ensatina, especially at Wagner Ridge. We took the traps from Kingsley and moved them to a higher elevation site to the east near Anderson Flat. We spent the night in Shingle Hill and drove back to Hell Hollow after dinner to look for Hydromantes. We started searching at 20:05 at the locality in the first draw up from Lake McClure near Bagby and I found an adult H. brunus almost immediately. Again, conditions seemed very good for salamanders. We found a total of 4 H. brunus, all of which I swabbed: