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  • Hot Stove Herping

    Hot Stove Herping 2021: Salabama

    December 24, 2021 / 2 Comments

    Note: ‘Hot Stove Herping’ is a phrase I coined years ago, for use in end-of-year posts on the old Field Herp Forum. I stole it from baseball; members of the…

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  • Hot Stove Herping

    Hot Stove Herping: Flipping the South

    December 23, 2021 / 10 Comments

    NOTE: “Hot Stove Herping’ is a phrase I coined years ago, for use in end-of-year posts on the old Field Herp Forum. I stole it from baseball; members of the…

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  • Field Herping

    Snake Road After Dark

    December 13, 2021 / 4 Comments

    Spring, summer or fall, it doesn’t matter – when the sun sets on the far side of the Mississippi, amphibians and reptiles are out and about in the La Rue-Pine…

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  • Field Herping

    Boardwalking

    December 6, 2021 / 2 Comments

    There are many ways to discover amphibians and reptiles – you can road-cruise for them, flip rocks and logs and trash, or even just walk them up. But if you…

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  • Creature Featurettes

    Getting to Terrapin

    January 9, 2021 / No Comments

    The word terrapin is rooted in the language of native peoples of North America. It is derived from torope, which comes from the southern Algonquin, and more specifically, from the…

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  • Field Herping

    Up in the Mountains of Mindo

    December 22, 2020 / 9 Comments

    In January, 2020, with Covid19 still a vague rumor, I traveled to Ecuador with three friends to the Mindo Valley area. We spent a few days up in the hills…

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  • Field Herping

    Otero Rendezvous

    July 31, 2020 / 5 Comments

    In early July of 2020 I made my way west to Otero County, Colorado, to participate in the annual COPARC herp survey. Otero is in the eastern portion of the…

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  • Hot Stove Herping

    Hot Stove Herping 6: Cuba

    January 7, 2020 / No Comments

    At the end of July I flew to Havana with a small group of friends to see what the fuss was all about with Cuban herps. We went there as…

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  • Field Herping, Hot Stove Herping

    Hot Stove Herping 5: Hong Kong

    January 7, 2020 / No Comments

    Some of our large group had to return home, but the rest of us pushed on to Hong Kong and another type of herping situation. For the first few days…

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  • Field Herping, Hot Stove Herping

    Hot Stove Herping 4: Vietnam

    January 7, 2020 / 4 Comments

    Our big group, swelled even larger by the addition of Alex and Nhut, landed at Hanoi and made their way to a hotel in the old French quarter of the…

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