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steveboyd
at Tue Jul 5 22:47:23 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by steveboyd ]
I collected 3 alterna in 1966 in 2 days on old Hwy 90 with a friend from Indiana named Steve Rohan. When we were collecting, we stayed under the bridge at Eagle Nest Canyon or at the High Bridge if the mosquitos were bad. Motels were out of the question due to money concerns. Gas was about 20 cents a gallon. I made 15 rocket runs from Fort Worth starting in 1965 until I collected my first alterna. In 2 days we collected 2 lepidus, 3 alterna, and a coral snake. That trip is still my most memorable trips.
PS.
I worked with Ben Dial at the Fort Worth Zoo and many years after he had a hear-lung transplant, met him collecting banded geckos in Langtry. I turned him on to the new Davis Control lights and he started hunting the Sanderson area successfully.
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RE: on some of the first / early alterna hunters......... - steveboyd, Tue Jul 5 22:47:23 2005