Journal Giant White Pine Campground, St. Joe Nat'l Forest to Beauty Creek Campground, Coeur d'Alene Nat'l Forest, Idaho 27 26 June Unfortunately I am several days behind in my field notes so this is being written on 29 June. I am rather busy on some of the details of time, etc. We spent the morning driving N from St. Joe Nat'l Forest following this route: Idaho 6→Idaho 5→Idaho 97 to Beauty Creek Campground, on Wolf Lodge Bay, the type locality for Plathodon idahoensis. We arrived ca. 1200. Soon after we got there we were told by another camper about a spot up the mountain to the N where he had seen a small moss-surrounded creek with tadpoles. We therefore drove up a minor dirt road up this hill, stopping for lunch on the way. We then walked ca. 1 mi up the road beyond where I decided to stop due to poor road conditions. We found no creek. We returned c. 1500 because of rain. Meg and Tori then went down the road to a KOA for showers. I walked up Beauty Creek (which was dry at the campground) and soon came to a fairly good sized creek -it disappeared into the rocks just above the campground). On the way I looked for larval amphibians in the creek and under moist rocks + logs at the edge of the water for Plathodon. Upslope from the immediate edge of the stream, the ground under logs, etc. was too dry for salamanders. The only animal found was a small metamorphosed Ascaphus truei in the wet edge of a small secondary stream. We rendezvoused ca 1830, had supper, went to Coeur d'Alene to see a movie-which was sold out-then back to camp and bed