Last Updated: 03/03/2008
added Illinois entry
*asterisk marks recent journals

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Whys & Wherefores

Introduction
Copyright and Credit Due
Mike's Page
Other People's Journals

Florida

The Why of a Brown Chin
Tallahassee Herping
Panhandular Herping

Kansas

Five Days in Kansas

Missouri

Mad Dash to Mingo
Return to Mingo
* Fifty Seven Kinds of Cottonmouth

Pennsylvania

Under Blue Mountain

California

A Quick Trip to the Desert
San Diego Co. 2003

Georgia

Return to Okefenokee
 

Notes From The Field:
 
A Journal of Amphibians and Reptiles

- Mike Pingleton -
 

Colorado

* In the Footsteps of Giants

Indiana

In Search of the Queen
Earth Day 2002
Portland Arch
Queen Snake Country
Creek Walkin'

South Carolina

Looking for Okeetee

Iowa

* In Search of Hawkeye Horridus

Oregon

* Oregon Herping

Tennessee

* Herping Reelfoot

Arizona

The Ridgenose by Ear
Night of the Baby Mojaves
Sidewinder
Tres Amigos en Arizona

Texas

Return to the Trans Pecos
Mama Gator and the Unfortunate Duck
Blue Serpents of the Palm Forest
Rattler on the Road!
Palm Forest 2003
Along the Pedernales
Lost Maples
Pedernales 2005
Austin Herping

 

Kentucky

Kentucky Herping
 

Illinois

Shawnee Moccasins
Bullsnake in a Bottle
Winter Salamandering
Cricket Frog Variations
In Search of Massasaugas
Canoeing the Scatters
Land Between the Rivers
Herper's Holiday
Herping the Tracks
Snake Road, Fall 2003
Shawnee, Fall 2004
Snake Road, March 2005
April in Southern Illinois
Massasaugas, April 2005
Pike Co.
Sand Bullies and Prairie Mambas
Along the Illinois River
Flying Fish on the Big Muddy
Turtling on Homer Lake
Snake Road, September 2005
On the Tracks, 2005
October in the Bluffs
An Ordinary Day, with Green Snakes
Once More Into the Bluffs
Chillin'
News from the Sand Prairies
The Right Place, at the Right Time

* Chubby Little Frog, Skinny Little Window

Elsewhere

The Great Salamander Swing
Leftovers
 

 

"Only with awareness of all life - plant and animal - can the greatest pleasure be gained from field
activities...As with a lovely mosaic, each piece by itself may have beauty of line and color and possess
a certain independent aesthetic value, but when it finds its place in the pattern as a whole, and is viewed
in relation to its fellow pieces, it attains the greatest worth and gives the greatest delight".
-Karl Kauffeld, Snakes: The Keeper and the Kept