The Night Snake (Hypsiglena torquata) is a secretive snake that is rarely encountered. Subsequently, little is known about the ecology of this species. Since it was first collected in 1943 in Washington State, few ( 40) specimens have been found. From May to October 2004 and 2005, I collected 121 specimens from 8 counties in eastern Washington State by road-cruising appropriate habitat. Snakes ...

The first (1981-1984) and second (1991-1994) statewide inventories of California’s oak woodlands found low levels of regeneration for several common oak species. In 2001, a new statewide inventory of California’s oak woodlands was initiated, with 10 percent of field plots measured each year. The first five years of data (2001-2005) were used to examine regeneration and sapling distributions in ...