An important thing to remember - when you overturn logs, boards, trash, whatever - make sure to put it back exactly in the same position it was originally on.

If you don't, other herpers will hate you.

The cover makes a moisture seal with the ground keeping humidity in - and if you don't put it back exactly as it was, you have destroyed the seal - it will dry out and very few herps will use that cover until the it has restored itself to ideal conditions, which takes months.

Often when you find boards or tin, those boards or tin have been carefully placed there by another field herper to create ideal conditions - which takes months - and it really pisses them off to come back and find it destroyed.

I'm mentioning this because a lot of people do not replace the cover just because they are ignorant to the impact that it has.
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