I use to see southern Aligator lizards when i was growing up.
Orange county in the 70s was vastly different than now its almost unrecognizable. There use to be big open fields, heck they even had a wild animal park in Irvine where they had lions and other animals free ranging.
Now OC is all housing and shopping etc. Gone are the vast Orange groves and farms. We really mucked things up for future generations.