After turning over a few logs, my friend located a Marbled Salamander, and a short time later, a second. According to the Oklahoma D e p a r t m e n t o f W i l d l i f e C o n s e r v a t i o n ( https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/wildlife/nongamespecies/marbled￾salamander), marbled salamanders have a black, body with 7 to 16 light bands across the back and tail. Males tend to have white bands while the bands on females tend to be gray. The bands on the two we found were more grayish in color, so they were probably females. Their rang map shows their Oklahoma range to be limited to the far southeastern portion of the state.

According to Schmidt ( http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/student/schmidt1/ouachita.html), Rich Mountain Salamanders are limited to a narrow habitat range within the Ouachita Forest on Rich and Black Mountains. By his description, the individual we located was the Kiamichi

variant as it seemed to lack the bronze coloring described on other variants.