Davis, Dean 2005 Journal June 13 Crooked Creek and Cottonwood Creek, Kings National Forest, Mono Cr., CA - I drove out to Bishop yesterday from Berkeley to meet Sean Schrihle. This morning we drove up into the White Mountains and stayed at the Crooked Creek station. We drove down the Crooked Creek road until it became too muddy, at which point we walked down along the creek. The area was grassy with sagebrush, with some aspen along the creek. We flipped rocks along the creek and Sean found a few cardinal beetles. We continued down the creek to an area with some willows, but there wasn't much leaf litter or many cover objects to turn (37.4981°N, 118.1124°W [WGS84, 7m acc.], 2798 meters). We searched along the creek from 12:30-2 PM, but there wasn't an area that looked like good salamander habitat. We attempted to drive down into Cottonwood Creek but the road was too rocky. We returned to the Cottonwood Creek road at 7:45 PM, parked and walked down the road until it met the creek. The water emerges from a spring just above the road, goes through a meadow and then flows through dense willow growth. Sean and I searched from 8:30-9:30 PM. There were some areas below the road where there was a thick, moist layer of leaf litter and some dead wood. At the end of the area (east end) that we searched, there were some good-looking mossy areas along the creek (37.53138°N, 118.16267°W [WGS84, 5m acc.], 2828 meters). We did not find any salamanders, but this area has a fairly large area of suitable-looking salamander habitat. The weather today was cool, mostly clear and windy.