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I went to the living desert refuge and saw lots of lizards about ten Chuckwalla, two collared lizards, one desert iguana, a few side blotched lizards and the largest whiptails I have ever seen or something I couldn't identify and something that looked like a desert spiney lizard but it was allmost black, I got there about 4:00PM and left about 5:30pm, most of the lizards were arouned the bighorn Sheep area and to the east of it

Sounds like you had a fun trip. The lizard you couldn't ID properly was more than likely a Sceloporus magister uniformis (yellow-backed desert spiny). Usually the most common in Riverside county. This link should help with that.

www.californiaherps.com/lizards/pages/s.m.uniformis.html

Did you come across any Horned Lizards? You were in the right habitat.
-Ryan

No DHL's I asked a few people that worked there if they had seen any and was told that I was in the wrong area, and not being an expert I thought I was, it had the ants, big black ones and red ones, sand, the creasote trees, I think there has to be some there, I just didn't see any, and the people working the were were cleaning the area that had hi traffic and didn't get out into the open desert much, I has anther trip out there in afew weeks I'm going to look again, the only problem is my meetings start at 6m and that's when I shout be out looking for herp's