Additional Habitat for the Desert Slender Salamander

The project of perhaps the greatest interest to herpetologists was a brief survey conducted by Derham Giuliani, under auspices of the Bureau of Land Management, from early January through late spring. He conducted a search for additional habitat for the Desert Slender Salamander, heretofore known only from one location adjacent to the Center in the Hidden Palms sector. Giuliani is believed to have found an additional population, on Deep Canyon land, in Guadalupe Canyon. It has not been determined positively that the new population is the same species, but it is a "probable" extension of the range of this species.

令两栖爬行动物学家（herpetologists）最为关注的项目，是由德里厄姆·朱利亚尼（Derham Giuliani）在美国土地管理局（Bureau of Land Management）赞助下开展的短期调查，调查周期为1月初至晚春。此次调查旨在为沙漠细螈（Desert Slender Salamander）寻找额外栖息环境，该物种此前仅在隐藏棕榈区（Hidden Palms sector）一处毗邻该中心的点位有发现记录。据信朱利亚尼在瓜达卢佩峡谷（Guadalupe Canyon）的深峡谷地块（Deep Canyon land）中发现了该物种的另一种群。目前尚未能确切证实这一新种群与该物种为同一类群，但该发现大概率扩展了该物种的分布范围。