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EL Karlstrom
1954
Buffalo toads (SS)
Oct. 17 Conversation over breakfast at Yosemite Lodge
with Carl Stephens who worked summer at
Ahwahnee Hotel ad now is there and at Curry.
Carl a undergrad herpetologist at Texas A & M.
Dike Russell introduced him to me and thanks
for Stephen's help experience.
Stephens uncovered a bufonid along a bank of
a brook one mile above Nevada Falls in the
Little Yosemite. He turned over a log at the edge
of the brook. The Merced Lake trail here crosses
the brook about 12 feet from the merced River.
He had worked up along the brook for a short
distance. Time was a Thursday (day off) end of
June, possibly June 24th.
This appears to be first report of toads in
the Little Yosemite. Elevation at this reported
locality, 6200 ft. If correct is low it would
be lowest record for species, and help to fill
in the toad-less gap (4000-6500?) in region
of Yosemite Valley.