This arboreal salamander (Aneides lugubris) was found near a redwood tree after recent heavy storm winds. It may have been blown out of a tree, or it may have been sheltering in the moist leaf litter nearby (these lungless salamanders breathe through their skin and need to remain in moist areas - which the extensive shade of the quarry provides copiously to the chagrin of the human inhabitants). Because they are usually hidden up in a tree or under leaf litter, this was a fairly rare unhidden sighting.

Photo by Song Nelson