Recently there were a few posts regarding Great Basin Gophers, and it is nice to see that they are more appreciated now than ever before. For those of you who entered the hobby recently, there was a time when keeping any Gophers other than albinos was looked down upon;in the '80's I was made fun of for keeping (ugh!) Gophers, and wanting to obtain (GASP!)Bullsnakes from every state,province, and estada im which they were known to occur. In those days, if you didn't have the "flavor of the month" tri-color King, you were viewed as a something of an oddity, to be polite (for the record, I like tricolor Kings, but not to keep,I'd rather keep tricolor Bulls). Times have clearly changed, and very much for the better, as evidenced by recent posts. I did mention sometime back that Great Basins are particularly underrated, especially since they have the Pituophis trait of being highly variable throughout their large range. One aspect of a recent post concerned me, however; while I'm sure it was well intentioned this post gave precise locality data. This is not a good thing to do; there are few if any people frequenting this forum that are less than above board, but you never know who is reading these posts who lack the ethics that most of us possess. County and state are more than sufficient; beyond that is inviting the unscrupulous. Be careful when you post, anybody can read it, and not just the good folks.
Bart
