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Do we have any credible locality records for the Rubber Boa in the San Gabriel Mountains? I grew up herping in the Azusa Canyon, Crystal Lake, Mt Baldy area etc and would be curious to learn of its presence there. I am now in Las Vegas and nostalgia has me wanting to return to the San Gabriels to fish and photograph herps, especially the Two-Striped Garter now on the endangered list.

I would also be interested in seeing a Rosy Boa in the San Gabriels. It is one species I have never encountered there.

Randy
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Firehouse Herps

RANDY, CHECK THE FIELD NOTES/OBSERVATIONS FORUMS THERE IS A RECENT POST ABOUT THE SRB'S RANGE. I AM GOING TO GO OUT IN THE FIELD IN SPRING AND CHECK IT OUT AND ALSO THE SAN GABRIEL ROSY'S AND ALSO SOME ROCKY MOUNTAIN BOAS IN IDAHO. STAY IN TOUCH IF YOU WANNA HOOK UP! SINCERLY, JD

Randy,
No confirmed sighting of the species is known for the San Gabriels, There have been some anecdotal accounts of the Rubber Boa having been observed in those mts. but no preserved specimens to date.

The SRB only occurs in the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mts. Similar appearing boas exist elsewhere in S. Calif. such as in the Tehachapi Mts., Mt. Pinos and vicinity west of I-5, Breckenridge Mt. 35 miles due east of Bakersfield, the Piute and Scodie Mts. due east of Breckenridge, the southern Greenhorn Mts. and southern Kern Plateau. Like the SRB, all of these other C. bottae populations are a dwarf from the species.

Richard F. Hoyer