Field notes, v1308
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Greene, lt. 1992 August 19 Near Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona We arrived here ~0800h - w/ Sarah Schmidt, Dave Hardy, and Michael Fozder; met up w/ Fred Wilson and his friend Mike Mittelman from Staten Island. Warm & humid, some clouds, evidence of rain earlier today. at 0855h I grabbed a small adult Salvadora grahamiae crawling in rocks beside the road; it wretched and cloacal discharged, did not bite. Fred and Dave looked for our radiotagged Crotalus willardi while the rest of us searched the opposite (S. facing) slopes of the main canyon. Fred got a new subadult C. willardi in our study area (#10), which Michael used for photos. We went to search rocks piles in the main Scotia Canyon, and at 1030h I got a Crotalus lepidus which I wound then saw crawl beneath one of hundreds in a flat pile - but it went no deeper. Re-visited a Sceloporus clarkei (sawed), at ~1200h, while we sat on my tailgate eating lunch, Sarah spied a ?Phrynosoma douglasii in grass at our feet. Also saw several Urosaurus and Cnemidophorus, and 2 Thamnophis cyptopsis. Sarah identified all major trees & shrubs here: Arizona white oak, Emory oak, alligator juniper, Mexican pinyon, squawbush, a manzanita, sotol, cholla, a little "rainbow cactus". No other pines; the site seems to fit