Catalogue and species accounts, v1302
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D.A. Good 1982 Journal Beauty Creek Beauty Creek to Moleins Bay, Idaho, cont.' 29 June (ant.) catching up on field notes, etc. Moleins Bay Beauty Creek Camp Ground, Coeur d'Alene Nat'l Forest to Samowen Campground, Kaniksu Nat'l Forest, Idaho 30 June Up ca. 0700. Our route followed Minn. county roads around the N shore of Hayden Lake and W to US 95. We then went N on 95 to Sandpoint which we reached ca. 1100. We stopped for groceries and some car parts and then drove out Hwy 200 to a published Genbunotus locality: 4.5 mi N/W Hope. We hunted for ligards in the vicinity of this point for a while, then drove up Treatle Creek Rd in hopes of finding some likely habitat. We drove up this road, stopping occasionally, until we went over a pass and down into the valley of Lightning Creek. This we followed downstream to Clark Fork which we reached ca. 1500. From here we drove E on County 276 looking for a ranger station that was on the map we had of the area. As it turned out this R.S. had been converted into a field station for the Dept. of Wildlife and Range Management of the University of Idaho. We stopped in and asked if anyone had seen Genbunotus in the area. Most of those we spoke to had never heard of a ligard in the area. One girl said that she had seen one when she was young and another 2 weeks ago (!) just in the backyard of one of the houses on the station. We went searching for it and others elsewhere on the station but found only 2 Thamnophis (another had been caught ca. 1 mi. down the road). People at the station also told us about