The location is obscured to protect this northernmost known Crotalus site west of the Cascade Mountains. These two specimens were photo-vouchered in 2008 and are the last rattlesnakes seen there. This observation is posted as a record of a population that possibly no longer exists in the Willamette Valley.
Two years in a row that I see a DOR Ringtail in the Merced River Canyon, this one a couple of miles away from the other. Bummer! Not there around 7am when I drove past the area so it must have been hit after.