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I found this individual walking up a stream wearing sandals. The channel turned cold and beneath the very first rock I flipped, was this salamander. It was roughly two inches long and had feathery gills consistent with salamanders of this genus. I did not handle the individual on the chance that it could be a listed species. Upon conferring with several biologists, we decided to return to the site the next day to hopefully find this salamander or another one like it. We failed to do so and subsequent attempts to find another salamander have also failed.

(Larger, darker snake) My mom texted me a photo of two snakes she found hanging out together while she was watering plants. ~3.5 hours later, they were still in the same area and I took some more photos. Sometimes the larger snake would move away a foot or two, and eventually the smaller one would slither over to it again. (will create a duplicate post for the other snake)