Points, Dean 2006 Journal Tributary of Cottonwood Creek, Holden Front Wilderness, and Charlie Canyon, N Fork Oak Creek, Inyo Co., CA (cont). May 24 or top of rocks- it looked perfect for salamanders, but I found none. This search lasted from ~12:30-2:30 PM, after which I climbed out of the canyon and hiked down and around back to the waterfall where I started. I flipped a few more rocks in a somewhat wet and mossy area above my data logger site and found 2 juvenile H. platycephalus (SMR93-94); this is only a few feet from where I collected the juvenile that escaped last year. I hiked back to my car following the same route. I drove to the campground at Charlie Canyon to camp. I hiked into the salamander site, which once again is somewhat overgrown with nettles, grasses and other annual vegetation. I offloaded the data from my logger at ~10PM. I didn't see any salamanders out foraging, but I did find 4 juvenile H. platycephalus under a small log among horsetails and willows next to the stream on damp ground, and 1 adult and 2 juveniles under volcanic rocks among wild rose below the rock wall. I didn't flip many rocks or swat any salamanders since I want to minimize disturbance to the population. The weather today was sunny and warm, probably in the 80s, and the night was clear and cool, in the 60s.