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Field Journals
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by Cro on July 16, 2005
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Every year, I purchase a bound notebook and start keeping a Herp Journal for that year. It costs about $1.00 for the journal and a good ink pen.
I keep records of behavior I observe on the reptiles I keep, and I keep detailed field notes of reptiles and amphibians I find during the year. I record road kills, and animals I find, and record the temperature, and weather conditions, and time of day, the location, and anything else that might be of interest.
Just today I am going through journals I kept back in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Even though these were written 30 years ago, I can still know what I found on what roads, and at what time and wether conditions. And if I go back collecting to those areas, some of them will still be good areas, just like they were in the past.
For instance, they list a great dusky pygmy rattlesnake location, and one for scarlett kings. Those areas are as good today as they were thirty years ago.
I would suggest that all you young herpers start keeping a journal, and recording what you find, and when, and the conditons. You would be amazed in looking back on just how usefull that information might just be. Best Regards JohnZ
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by Steel on July 16, 2005
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That's great advice John, and GPS would help along those lines in a big way. As a hunter/trapper I use this tech. as well, but tend to look back and realize my nice areas are gone to development. The further North I go, so be it. TF
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