Hauken, James 1976 Journal White Mtn Research Sta - Crooked Creek Lab, White Mtns, Mono Co Ca, Calif 19 Sept Creek which runs past the Crooked Creek lab and left the car at the entrance to the 4-wheel drive vehicle road at the edge of the cany Cottonwood Creek Canyon. On 17 Sept we hiked down the canyon to the NE of the dirt road which goes intersects Cottonwood Creek E of the junction w/ Tres Plumas Cr.. We then proceeded W along Cottonwood Cr. to the point where the 4-wheel drive vehicle reaches the creek, and then returned to our car. Yesterday we descended via the jeep road and worked the canyons as far as Granite Meadow to the NW, and also Poison Cr. before returning to the Lab. The most promising localities were clumps of aspens on N-facing slopes, in some cases associated with seeps, which appeared moist enough for salamanders. Unfortunately, there were few of these areas, in particular the first canyon by which we descended 17 Sept, a cluster at the NE end of Granite Meadow, and a relatively extensive forested area along the S bank of Cottonwood Cr E of Poison Cr. Other patches of aspen were present, i.e. Poison Cr., but these were not moist at all.