7 Feb. 107 Amphibian Collecting Trip Valencia Lagoon, Riodel Mar turnoff, Hwy 1, Santa Cruz Co., Calif. has been drained and a rope net bottomed channel has been constructed and along the side of the freeway. The drainage channel is lined with an introduced grass to prevent it from eroding. The ditch is quite wide and deep and designed according to Mr Tom Brown to handle runoff from a "once in hundred years" storm and anticipating future growth and runoff from the area. After talking for a time it became quite obvious that the Highway commission had not known about the presence of Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum although letters have been written to them in the past regarding this beast. The construction work was quite clearly the result