Hauken, James 1976 Journal Southwestern Research Station, Chiricahua Mtns, Portal, Arizona 28-29 6 Aug July The next morning we rented a "Sunfish" and (cont'd) (cont'd) went sailing in Puerto Marquez before returning to Chiricahua. 30 July: Ted had not yet arrived by this morning so Doug and I drove to Esal for Thornton in the mountains E of Chiricahua along the road to Ysleta. The road is paved from Chiricahua for ~25-30 miles where it becomes a broad, graded dirt road, good for traveling although with immense rocks. We traveled ~50 mi. E out of Chiricahua where the road has reached its highest elevation between there and Chiricahua of ~6500' and begins an declining town to lower elevations into the East. We worked here in the very dry scrubby pine for + oak forest for ~1/2 day without collecting or even seeing one berg. A local resident said that the rainy season is in August & September, but even then I can't imagine the exposed, lightly vegetated hillsides to provide good habitat for salamanders. Apparently to get salamanders in East central Greenes one must take a three day trip Tlaxcala (~100 mi. from Chiricahua) and from there work the