Without getting into specifics as to the counties that Jason herps...let me just say that Jason along with a few other young guys in southern Ohio (Mike Graziano comes right to mind as well)...is raising the bar as far as herping the region goes.



As a herper of the region of many years, I should be embarrassed at the way these wipper-snappers are turning stuff up, but I've decided to take another angle...forgetting about pride and learning from them!



Jason has taken a studious and strategic approach to herping the state. That, combined with his relentlessness...(like driving alone on no sleep to boo-foo land Ohio EVERY SINGLE WEEK) and a tad of good fortune here and there to boot, has landed him some incredible and numerous finds. I can tell you from personal communication from the source that he is turning heads in the scientific community with his success and knack for finding and documenting species. and he does it in a very ethical way, not to collect animals or brag about his accomplishments...but to photograph and log GPS coordinates to for the advancement of science.



I know I sound like a commercial for Jason here, but he didn't pay me a dime to make this post and I'll probably embarrass the heck out of him with it, but I feel that it needed to be said.



The new methods and new blood in field herpetology are expanding our knowledge throughout the country...Ohio is no exception.



This buds for JF!

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• Hot Summer Herping - zagarus42, Fri Aug 4 18:23:05 2006
• RE: Hot Summer Herping - DeanAlessandrini, Mon Aug 7 15:29:33 2006
• Thanks Dean! np - zagarus42, Wed Aug 9 19:34:21 2006
• Wow - gophersnake13, Sun Sep 3 17:55:38 2006
• RE: Hot Summer Herping - johnbort2, Tue Aug 8 10:19:07 2006
• the new generation of OH herpers... - DeanAlessandrini, Tue Aug 8 15:12:03 2006
• Dean is waaay too nice... - zagarus42, Wed Aug 9 20:32:34 2006
• RE: Hot Summer Herping - zagarus42, Wed Aug 9 19:47:54 2006
• RE: Hot Summer Herping - johnbort2, Thu Aug 10 10:43:26 2006