Field notes, v1307
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Greene, H. 1990 August 17 ~ 20 am above ground at the side of the road, (continued) west side of the arroyo that crosses the road at the picnic area turnout. His head was horizontal on the edge of outer coil of body, and he made no response to our approach. We had dinner (Billie Hardy's Chile Relleno - hot!) w/ Aulder Hayes, a former National Park Service archaeologist who has been in this area for decades. We told us that the pullout we use to park where our blacktails are is called Duffener Camp; that the ridge that runs ~ W-E and N of Silver Creek, upon which the rattlers hibernate, is called Limestone Mountain, from East Turkey Creek to its terminus near Portal - and the specific ridge was called Grand Royal Ridge for a while because of a mine up there; and that there's an adobe ruin near there called Albert Firth for the guy who lived in it in the 1880's and 1890's. Dave and I road hunted to Bernardino and made two passes over the massasauga site - saw a Micrurus between their house and Portal, a neonate C. scutulata, and a yearling Pituophis (not saved - H&R at 2022 hr, 22.9 mi SW State Line Rd. on U.S. 80). At 2159 hr we drove by and could see C. mokeses ~ #3 in the same tree crotch. August 18 At 0847 hr, C. undosus ~ #3 has crossed the South