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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