NDOW sponsored Bio Blitz: White Mountains

Target Species: Panamint Alligator Lizard (Plestiodon panamintina), and California Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis zonata)?!

Overview: Literally nothing is known about the species occurring on the Nevada portion of this range. Additionally, the occurrence of the Panamint Alligator lizard is unknown in Nevada. Recent graduate student work (Clause 2015, Yasuda 2015) depicts this species as likely to occur in the remote White Mountains (west of Tonopah). This will be a weekend (three day) blitz which may include some work in California, given the geographic nature of the White Mountains.

The meadow in Trail Canyon at 11S 386767E 4192654N (see attached pic [the creek next to the road is Chaitovitch Creek; there is an old ranch house on the main highway at the creek). There are a number of small hunter camps here and there in the canyon if this is full.