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J.D. Anderson
1957
Journal
March 23 Trip to Valencia, Sagoon, Rio del Mar, Santa Cruz & Cliff.
Left Berkeley at 8 am with D[illegible] & Dan Wilhoft.
Travelled via Skyline Blvd. Stopped at
a pond 4½m.s. San Francisco Sun, Son Mateo. Caught
1 large ad. Thamnochis scitafis tetragona &
jew. Continued on towards Santa Cruz
with an occasional stop for collecting. Arrived
at Valencia at 11pm. The food was
much drier than two weeks previous. The
pond area was not completely dry. Those areas
which contained eggs to on March 9 were not
hard & dry. The stream (Valencia Creek) was
completely dry also. It would seem that
the reproductive effort of the year will be
absolutely zero. Even big rainstorms would
do little good at this point. Thoroughly
searched oak woods for adults but went more
close to