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    Nature Stick and the Great Sea Turtle Rescue

    December 22, 2015 / 2 Comments

    Hit Me With Your Nature Stick is one of my favorite field herping blogs.  Mike and Andrea Howlett chronicle their herping adventures with a passion and excitement that make me…

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  • Creature Featurettes

    San Francisco Garter Snake

    November 27, 2015 / 6 Comments

    “It’s the stuff dreams are made of” -Sam Spade My first awareness of the San Francisco Garter Snake came in the early seventies, when I came across a first edition…

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    KHS 42nd Annual Meeting

    November 13, 2015 / 1 Comment

    It’s a long way from my house to Hays, Kansas.  Eleven hours behind the wheel is enough to make one wobbly, wild-eyed and weary, but the annual meeting of the…

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  • Creature Featurettes

    Suriname Toad

    November 2, 2015 / 3 Comments

    The rainy season paid no attention to the calendar and the downpours continued.    The water was high at the Madre Selva field station, high enough to reach the steps of…

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  • Field Herping

    The Last Snake of the Year…

    November 1, 2015 / 1 Comment

    …was a frog.  Or rather, a dozen frogs. Recently, Tracey Mitchell and I made one last trip to the southern portion of Illinois, in hopes of finding a few more…

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  • Creature Featurettes

    Cape Aquatic Garter Snake

    November 1, 2015 / No Comments

    I arrived a day later than the rest of the 2013 expedition to Baja Sur, in order to save myself $250 on the plane ticket.  Consequently, I missed out on…

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  • Field Herping

    Hello world!

    October 4, 2015 / No Comments

    I started field herping in the early 1970s.  I’ve been blogging about herps since 1996.  Of course, blogging hadn’t been invented yet, but nobody told us, the handful of proto-bloggers…

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