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This message is spurred by the folks who have visited my fields in San Antonio, but it's a good reminder for everyone.

After you flip a board, rock, or any cover, please put it back exactly as you found it!!!! PLEASE!

Don't worry about a fire ant bed or two. The kings and other snakes will coil sometimes right next to the bed w/o disturbing the ants! Trust me, I see it almost every day. If the whole piece of cover is ants, well go ahead and move it.

If you don't put the stuff back, you will riun it for the others visiting these sites!!! The stuff I saw in San Antonio this past weekend was SENSELESS, INCONSIDERATE, and not to mention you mess it up for YOURSELF TOO!!

This has been a public service announcement from Joe Forks
Thanks for reading and taking this to heart.

Joe

THANK YOU. Ive seen this problem in a couple of my favorite spots too, what a piss off.
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- Happy herping!

KE

I was just down in the cane fields and the areas around them and ended up following a fellow herper. I spent more time replacing the ac that he was displacing than I did herping myself and became so agitated that I had to leave. I'm not worried that he was finding kings and I wasn't, just disappointed that he didn't consider either the animals or the herpers that might come after him. Down there a piece of carpet can be relied upon to produce all season long--IF it is left in a manner conducive to safety/hiding for a snake.
You're right, I found 2 small kings under boards that were 1/2 ant beds, so that doesn't matter a heck of a lot. If you're going to move stuff, put it in a BETTER spot!!
If you leave it "nice and neat" (multiple layers too)there is little chance of it being "cleaned up" or removed as compared to a haphazard pile of junk that is noticeable from far away.
:Mark

>>This message is spurred by the folks who have visited my fields in San Antonio, but it's a good reminder for everyone.

I know ErikNM and I were careful to replace cover as found.

As I recall, the one particular spot we visited is no longer around (bulldozed)? I've only recently found a similar spot here in my new town--near a water source, numerous piles of concrete rubble and probably other debris--looks promising.

Good to see you're still around--you had me worried with the herp lawyer stuff a while back!
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Chris McMartin
www.mcmartinville.com
I'm Not a Herpetologist, but I Play One on the Internet

Good to see you're still around--you had me worried with the herp lawyer stuff a while back!

Nothing that a good lawyer and some american greenbacks couldn't take care of. Just ask OJ and Robert Blake.

PS I didn't kill anyone

Best
Joe

GO, JOE, GO JOE!! Yeah, some people just don't get it. Saw lots of that in west Texas last weekend, too, only with people dgging out rocks from the middle of the road cuts. Obviously people, not falling rock.
Todd