Photos, Dean 2007 Journal March 28 Ferguson Slide and Bear Creek tributary, Mariposa Co., CA Jed and I spent most of the day mapping less suitable areas around the slide with the Submeter accuracy GPS. We saw no salamanders in this area. We drove to the same culvert in the tributary of Bear Creek as yesterday and searched on the hill above. The habitat looks really great for H. brunnus, but I found only a juvenile Eriolais gorgonus under a rock. After dark, we searched in the culvert and I saw 2 H. brunnus, one of which escaped into a crack. I swabbed the other one: #BC4 subadult local only photo 1040144 I also saw 1 Taricha and 1 Ensatina. The weather was warm and mostly sunny today, but the temperature dropped rapidly after sunset and it was quite cold when we saw the salamanders out.