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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]