Old reports are from Stonewall Peak and Cuyamaca Peak. It is also reported from the San Bernardino National Forest. Reports from Riverside County are from near Van Deventer Flats and Santa Rosa Mountain Truck Trail, east of Table Mountain in the Santa Rosa Mountains, at several locales between Forbes Ranch Road and Lake Hemet east of Highway 74, in the vicinity of Mountain Center, near Tahquitz Peak, and near Idyllwild. Parish's Chaenactis is locally well distributed in the chaparral along Santa Rosa Peak Road, west of the peak, in Riverside County. Parish's Chaenactis populations are presumed stable in areas of transmontane habitat which have as yet received limited historical impacts.
Recreational activities pose limited threats to specific populations.
Significant portions of all large populations should be protected. Copyright May 1994 Craig H. Reiser.