Catalogue and species accounts, v1302
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D.A. Goad 1982 Journal Morton to Paradise Point, Washington (cont') 16 July We found nothing. We then decided, since the weather was much nicer than yesterday, to go back to Chambers Creek in Tacoma to try again for the lizards Meg + Toni saw yesterday. We got back there ca. 1200 and spent a couple of hours hunting. We got 2 more Thamnophis and Meg saw some Sceloporus but we saw no Cembrotus. Since my time was running out I decided to leave the Puget Sound area and move on South to try for some other localities. We therefore drove S on I5 ca. 1400. We kept to I5 as far as Longview where we turned W on Hwy 4. We drove W on 4 to the Columbia (White-tailed Deer National Wildlife Refuge) where I hoped to talk to someone about possible collecting sites. We reached the NWR ca. 1600 but unfortunately there wasn't anyone there to talk to. We then drove back E along 4 stopping periodically at likely spots. We finally found Cembrotus on an abandoned stretch of highway up the hill from 4 just W of Chill Creek. This locality consisted of a stretch of paved road with grass, etc encroaching on the edges. Also present were rocks of various sizes lying on and beside the road that had fallen from the cliff which towered over the site. In a couple of places extensive rockslide had occurred and the old road was completely buried. It was under these rocks that we found lizards; they seemed to prefer rocks lying on the ground either beside the pavement or just on it. We found 12 lizards and 1 Deadiophis punutatus. After leaving the site ca. 1930, we drove E on 4 to [illegible]