Tokaysmice,

The best field herpetologist in Oregon is Alan St. John of Bend if you need someone to confirm your finds and if you have new locality records. But I am willing to travel to The Dallas area if you believe you have found a species in a new locality. This is the type of information that needs to be confirm and reported.



For instance, I just published a paper dealing with the Sharp-tailed Snake in Oregon updating its occurrence in the state. But east of the Cascades, little has been reported since the early 1970's when I discovered the species at Rock Creek Reservoir and at Tygh Valley. The only other records from that region are in The Dallas proper as report by a couple of ODFW biologists. Other than those three localities, any other sighting east of Portland for that matter would be new information.



And the species has now been confirmed by a BLM herp survey to occur in Klamath County also east of the Cascade Mts. in south central Oregon. Also, although there have been a number of reports of zonata occurring in north central Oregon, none have been confirmed. So should you come across a Mt. Kingsnake in that part of Oregon, please contact either me or Al St. John. I can be contacted at charinabottae@earthlink.net



Richard F. Hoyer

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