Yellow-legged frog larva in Yosemite National Park.
Dead adult yellow-legged frog found in a small pond in Yosemite National Park, more than 13 dead frogs were found at this pond on this day.
Yosemite toad found during the day next to a very small stream within a large meadow in Yosemite National Park.
Yosemite toad tadpoles in shallow water in a meadow around Saddlebag Lake.
An unafraid pika that approached my group of three while hiking up Mount Dana from Yosemite's Tioga Pass entrance station.
The elevation is 10,800'. The terrain is mixed talus with alpine grasses on the shallower parts of the slope. 2012 is a low snow year.
Female Yosemite toad found near drying pool in Dana Meadows, Yosemite National Park
Species from Western North America
Common name: Alpine Laurel
Photographed in the alpine meadow between Greenstone Lake and Saddlebag Lake, Inyo National Forest, Mono County, California
Species from Western and Northern North America
Common name: Dwarf Bilberry, Sierra Bilberry
Photographed in the alpine meadow between Greenstone Lake and Saddlebag Lake, Inyo National Forest, Mono County, California
Species from Western North America
Common name: Columbian monkshood, western monkshood
Photographed along Saddlebag Lake, Inyo National Forest, Mono County, California
Circumpolar distribution around the North Pole
Male Clone
Common name: Arctic Willow
Photographed in the alpine meadow between Greenstone Lake and Saddlebag Lake, Inyo National Forest, Mono County, California
Species from California and Nevada
Common name: Sargent's Campion
Photographed along Saddlebag Lake, Inyo National Forest, Mono County, California
Species from California and Nevada
Common name: Mountain Heather
Photographed along Saddlebag Lake, Inyo National Forest, Mono County, California
