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For Sale The Reptiles and Amphibians of Sweet Marsh.

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Book #7 in the Reptile and Amphibian Boy Scout Field Guide series by Massasauga Publishing.

The Reptiles and Amphibians of Sweet Marsh. Field guide to one the best herping spots in North America located in Bremer County Iowa. Can be described as a walk through Medusa's head. The park with the farthest Western population of federally protected Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnakes. Other rare species like Blanding’s Turtles and Central Newts. Species accounts, tadpoles photos, color audiospectrum graphs of frog calls, maps. Full color, 38 pages, ISBN 978-1-5323-3153-4. $8 each plus $2 postage.

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What on earth are you talking about? I grew up spending every weekend searching for herps in and around that area and there are no more herps there than there are at hundreds of spots around the midwest. Especially now that they have tamed the whole area by cutting down all the brush and manicuring every levee. Very few herps left there. Also, the massasaugas are gone from the area due to collection and habitat destruction. And from what I have seen, your tiny book offers no insights, just very basic info like "this species may be found here". Really disturbing that you would try to entice would be illegal collectors with your misinformation.
 
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