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Ronto, Dear
2011
Journal
June 4
Chimatetz, Sierra de Chucua, Quiche, Guatemala
Spent all of June 1 + most of June 2 dealing w/ export permits; drove to Santa
Cruz del Quiche in the evening. The museum truck was having problems
climbing hills- no power. Yesterday, talked to Josue Nasquez, in the
municipalidad of Zacualpa, who we met on our last visit. Tried to go w/
him to Chimatetz, where Carlos+cl had collected salamanders, but the
truck couldn't make it up the hill. Hopped back, found a guy w/ a truck,
looked all gear + drove his full + an empty truck to Chimatetz. It rained
hard in afternoon + we were unsure exactly where good forest was, so we
stayed in the school (last classes were today- no kids for a week). Went
out at night after rain ended + walked along road for ~1km but saw
nothing- bad habitat, road cuts too near w/ no cracks. This morning,
two guides named Manuel took us to a really nice oak forest at 04:30
to set up bird nets+ mammal traps. I found 2 Bolitoglossa andrei
on the ground + on a log at 04:50; the forest was wet from yesterday's
rain. This population has orange-pink blotches on its sides + ventral
and white specks and should correspond to Campbell's B. arissinctorum.
The forest has very big, old oak trees with enormous and numerous
brachyblads, scattered pine trees, and a fairly open understory + thick
leaf litter. We set up most of the bird nets along paths bordering
secondary, brushy vegetation + bushes just above the new road to
Pasaje (sp.?); this is a few hundred meters from where Carlos+cl
stopped in March. cl helped set up bird nets for a few hours while Ana
ducan + Alejandro Nicolle set mammal traps; they found a juvenile
B. cuhuanatana + a dead B. morio in a fallen branch. The dead
B. morio decayed rapidly + cl didn't collect it. Jerome+ Rodolfo spent,