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It was on my porch

Under log on fungus - shell about 2/3" across.

Empty shell, 1.5 cm across.

Alive, about 2/3" across.

I found 100s of these, dormant in the dry weather, all over this section of roadside fence. Wow!

Banana slug.

Found in the middle of a fire road, it was eating a dried out dead lizard, which is difficult to see but visible in the images.

I hope this id is wrong since this apparently is an invasive species, but whatever it is, it is very common at this park.

Under moist plywood adjacent fern greenhouse.

Under plywood

8 individuals seen surface active near a deep opening at base of a rock pile

In moist grass on cool night

Shell imaged here encountered along trail. Dilapidated shells seen under a pallet. The juvenile hanging arboreal on grass was imaged by Ryan P. O'Donnell.

Aestivating individuals in suburban environment

Juvenile shell

About a dozen individuals seen surface active

As far as I know, this is the first record of Anadenulus cockerelli in over 70 years, and the first images of this species ever.

Conceivably http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/228797-Prophysaon-andersoni. Found under a log, maybe 3-4 cm long.

I added this specimen to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge's entomology collection (KNWR:Ento); record available at the URI below.

http://arctos.database.museum/guid/KNWR:Ento:10641

Under a pile of rotting wood.

Slug

left a track of slime
found in dry creek bed