Field notes, v1382
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E.L. Kardum 1954 Bufo canorus (26) may 30 Tuolumne mtns., 8600 ft., Yosemite National Park, margosa cr., Calif. Down SW of campground about 1/2 mile. Air temp 8:01 p.m. (D.S.) 5.5°c. Water temp. Shallow (max 4") 75 feet wide pool 14.6°c. Meadows free of snow but a few scattered patches around campground under pine canopy. Pines and stems all high. The meadows are even less than half greened out. New green grass averages 3" tall but rises to 5-6". Very open meadows here cut by many stem drainages. Lodgepole pine dominant forest tree. Small conifers (single trunks) to 8" height. <deer-like head> The melt-off water matte of dead leaves here (1 1/2 miles SW of Tuolumne) can form large shallow pools up to 200 yards length. Clocked meadow just W of store at Tuolumme. Nothing there. Inigo Pass Ranger Station, 9950 ft., Tuolumne Co., Calif Locality just W of Ranger Station still 1/4 covered by snow to 2' thick. Meadows further W along Road even more snow, 1/2 covered. Hygro (few) calling but wary from under grass. Air temp 1" above shiny grass 1.5°c. at 8:55 p.m. Water temp in 1 1/2" deep runoff 3.1°c. I listened for long period and called canorus style. No crickets heard or picked up with hardwire. Grasses just starting to grow, less than 1" tall. Apparently this area as well as Tuolumne not right now for Bufo emergence. But why at Kaiser Pass under