Field notes, v1304
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Reese, H. 1980 29 April 7.5 mi N Hwy 80 on Hoff Rd (NW of El Centro) Imperial Co., Cal. (cont.) East of large dune in the bombing range to the W crosses the road here. Walk around for 30 min. Kristine caught a Uta, saw a Callisaurus, and saw cf. Dipsozaurus scat. Creosote bushes very widely spaced, not much other vegetation. No tracks of lizards or cerastes. Some evidence of rodents (burrows, flushes) but lizards seem very scarce. We turn around. 889.9 - photo ? ground squirrel eating 900.6 - very DOR large Pituophis. 905.1 - Turn W. on Hwy 80. 907.7 - photo of juvenile Dipsozaurus in burrow entrance. 920.0 - nice white dune crosses road here. Very windy and overcast, and we saw nothing. 922.9 - Jct Hwy 2 923.2 - Turn N. on Shell Canyon Rd. (N of Ocotillo). 924.0 - Stop for photo of ocotillo in bloom. Saw cf. Callisaurus. Quite a lot of sand here. 928.9 - West to end of pavement on Shell Canyon Rd., now track at Hwy 2 & turning W. 931.4 - Turn N. on un-paved paved road; Boulder piles on Hwy 8, facing E, @Imperial Co.line, California Very windy, chilly, saw one ? Sceloporus orcutti flat on a boulder in sun. 1640.