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Greene, H.
1989
October 19 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona
Arrived here at 2300hr last night, having flown in from San Francisco via Salt Lake City and picked up David Hardy's jeep at the Tucson Airport. Surprised I was able to travel, because at 1704 hr on the 17th we had a ~7.0 earthquake and the airport was closed for a few hours. This AM Barney Torberlin and I stopped on the Paradise Rd ~1.5 mi W of Portal in shrub, and I found an adult Granidophorus uniparens inactive and dirt crusted in a burrow under a small rock. Then we checked for the two telemetered Crotalus molossus, but they were not visible where he most recently saw them. Then we drove to the Krenz Ranch on Rucker Canyon Rd and obtained permission to look for herps from Mr. Krenz' sister-in-law, a Mrs. White. We drove ~2-3 km down a dirt track that extends out into the range ~5 km from Rucker Canyon Rd & ~2.5 mi W of Hwy 80. Then back to the backsides of two connected hills w/ rock outcrops that we explored earlier this year. I saw 1 hatchling Sceloporus undulatus, active on a rock outcrop, and Barney saw a Chrosaurus ornatus. A large Canis latrans loped ahead of us up the hill and over it, pausing every few dozen meters to stand in profile, ears up and face us for a few seconds. At 1230hr as I clambered over rocks in grass beside a >1m diameter boulder, I heard a