Journal and species accounts, v1347
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which rather quickly descends from drain the canyon wall to the lake for a distance of 150 m at ~630 m eloo. The stream bed is ~8-10' wide though the stream itself is only 4-5' wide and a few miles deep. The canyon walls ascend steeply either side and are densely covered overgrown with bushes, shrubs, ferns, and some trees. The only frog which I found associated with the stream were #s P99-106 which were found abundant among the rocks at streamside (often jumping into the stream at my approach). I turned over a few rocks so might have missed other frogs hiding, but Dr. Mottler says that the gold frogs are conspicuous when present. Returning from the stream I found a different species (P107) along the path up the canyon wall, leaving Leaving El Valle I continued to Cerro Campana where again checked likely spots for salamanders above the Molino Line (including the vicinity of the large water tank). No sals were found during the ~3 hours of search though a frog (P108)