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New careers, jobs, and business take you many places but where you grew up is alway what you think of as home. Texas is cool and you certainly can't road-cruise a 6' Drymarchon on the way home from from the local Carl's Jr. back in Sacramento. As long as I live, though, nothing will compare to the skipped heartbeat of flipping a zonata, wading around an alpine lake for Rana muscosa at 9,000', or the sight of a Cal Tiger crossing the road through your windshield wipers late on a rainy January night. Hope you like...

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...and cull Bullfrogs in order to re-establish Red-legged Frog habitat in some East Bay parks.

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...from the pervasive OHV use there.

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Erik-
Great photos! I agree with your assessment of S. hammondi in northern California. They are hurting in a very bad way (and coast horned lizards too, for that matter) and just about extinct anywhere north of Corral Hollow. I know of a few isolated populations in west Sacramento, but they won't be around long...

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Awesome pics, Eric. Thanks for sharing!
Todd

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Do you think any reptiles or amphibians live there now?

Obviously the kingsnakes there were adversely affected far more by the bulldozers (compared to collectors.) Yet the laws target collectors and not bulldozers.
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Mark G

Thanks for sharing!

pics.Thanks for sharing them.I enjoyed all of them very much.The slamander pics were very nice.
Jeff Teel

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Eric, lots of great material there and in your Mexico post, thanks. It does take us lots of places and I enjoy it even though I live in Michigan. I'll post some of my stuff eventually, but spring is just now coming to our area, and we're always working it seems. We usually have our best luck after school is out and most of us are out for the summer and can travel. Keep up the great work, although I know it gets harder as we get older and there's less and less of everything.

TC

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Keep 'em coming.