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Photo, Dean
2007
Journal
May 21
Donora Pass, Inyo Co. and Owens Valley, Inyo Co., CA
Dean Schiitle and I drove up to Donora Pass to get salamanders for my physiology experiments. I immediately found 2 in seeps below the road [illegible] near the 7000 ft sign. Both were small adults or subadults (SP Phys 1+2). We walked up to the cascade where I found many in 2005, but it was covered in snow. We walked back to some small trickles of water on a west-facing slope above the small creek that leads to the road, a spot where Dean got some swals for me. We found 2 more subadults/small adults (SP Phys 3+4) by turning status along the wet areas, and saw about 5 juveniles. In all, we searched for ~40 min here. We drove down to the Owens Valley lab in Bishop, where we are staying. After dinner, we went to Charlie Canyon, where the habitat was very dry except under the biggest rocks and along the stream. We found 5 big adults (ChC Phys 1-5) and 4 juveniles between 20:00 and 20:30; one adult was foraging along the stream and all the others were under rocks. Finally, we went to Sawmill Canyon. After some pointless bushwacking due to my confusion about where we were, we arrived at the place where I found salamanders last year. It was fairly wet in the seeps along the cliff wall, and I found 6 adults (tore 5-5m C1-5) and 4 juns here; it was very dry everywhere else. I also collected an Elyaria multicarinata from the branches of a shrub. We searched from 21:30-22:30, but only spent 10-15 min in the good salamander habitat.