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DA Good
1982
Journal
Morton to Paradise Point, Washington (cont')
16 July
then 5 on 5 to Paradise Point State Park, where we spent the night.
We stopped at a number of places during the day
looking for lizards, all of which appeared to me to be excellently
suited for them. Some sites were logged over areas with
many fallen logs; some were patches of driftwood along
the Columbia River of the sort that would be crawling
with lizards if they were in California. The only site at which
lizards were found consisted of rockslide. Perhaps the
habitat occupied by Genusbonotus here is more restricted
than it is farther north (?).
Paradise Point State Park to Eel Creek Campground, Oregon Dunes
Natl. Rec. Area, Oregon
17 July
Got an early start this morning (0720). We got onto
I-5 + drove S to Eugene, then W on 126 to Florence,
then S on 101 past Coos Bay to Bullards Beach State Park
which we reached ca. 1200. We had lunch and then
spent some time turning logs behind the dunes in an area
which, had it been in California, I would have said should
have been crawling with Genusbonotus. We found none.
Perhaps beaches are not favored habitats this far north;
I find this hard to believe because the museum localities
around here indicate shore locations.
After trying a couple of other beaches in the vicinity of
Bandon and after unsuccessfully asking after a naturalist
at the local information center, we decided to look at the area