Publications

My frog book

Online - part of this website:

• Monthly columns in the Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society, 1986 to present.
• Bimonthly columns in Vivarium Magazine 1989 to 1999.
• My Unknown Victorians - the story of our Ferndale house. August 26, 2004
• The 1906 Earthquake and Ferndale August 13, 2004
• Photos from the Lost Coast April 1, 2004
• Frogs and Toads of the Chicago Region June 26, 2002
• Translations of the scientific names of the reptiles and amphibians of the United States and Canada north of the Rio Grande. November 30, 2000 and updates.
• Fossils: First Families of Chicago. January 15, 2000
• Glacial Glossary Spring 2000 and updates
• Citations for the Original Descriptions of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. 44 pages. December 1995. Biological illustration of Rana pipiens on cover. ISBN: 0916984362
• Administrontium: Physics Non-Department First to Photograph New Element. The Journal of Irreproducible Results. Volume 39, Number 5, September-October 1994.

Online - offsite:

• August 18 - Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth Shakespeare at Benbow; Beauty and the Beast, HLOC
• August 4 - Blazny, Blazny! The Foreigner, NCRT; Seussical the Musical, FRT
• July 21 - Cat Got Your Tongue? The Foreigner, NCRT; Seussical, FRT; Flock, DA
• July 7 - From the Lost Coast to The Edge Lost Coast Live, FRT; Edgefest 2005, DA
• June 30 - Laugh by laugh toward Niagra Falls Wonder of the World, RC; Ensemble Theatre Festival: The Golden State and San Francisco Mime Troupe Doing Good DA
• June 16 - The cutting edge Preview: Ensemble Theatre Festival - DA
• June 2 - It's not what life does to you; it's what you do with life Sunshine Boys FRT/Dancers NCRT
• May 19 - Dancin' in the Sunshine PREVIEW Sunshine Boys and Dancers
• May 5 - Grasshoppers and Grey-Coats Shenandoah HLOC, In the Land of the Grasshopper Song DA
• April 28- Laughing at climate change Human Nature Theatre and Enchanted April at RC
• April 7 - Building a better Deathtrap FRT
• March 31 - Absolute certainty is completely impossible Review: The Wasp and The Bald Soprano NCRT, DA Award
• March 17 - Halt! Who goes there? Preview: The Wasp and The Bald Soprano NCRT and Mask of Melodrama DA
• March 3 - Shadows of Giants - Shadow of Giants DA/Teen Show FRT
• February 24 - The Improbable in Pursuit of the Unmentionable - The Underpants RC
• February 10 - Can you say "Vagina"? - Vagina Monologues HSU
• February 3 - Two Gents Shine - Two Gentlemen of Verona NCRT
• January 27 - Time Warp - Forever Plaid FRT
• January 13 - Previews of Upcoming Shows and a Year-to-come Calendar of Humboldt County Live Theatre

Abbreviations:
FRT = Ferndale Repertory Theatre; DA = Dell'Arte; NCRT = North Coast Repertory Theatre; RC = Redwood Curtain Theatre; HLOC = Humboldt Light Opera Company; HSU = Humboldt State University

2004

• December 23 -It's all good in North Coast Theater 2004 - First ever "Picks from Behind the Curtain"
• December 9 - Sanity is the Playground for the Unimaginative - Three Little Pigs
• December 2 - More Holiday Theater
  December 2 - Oompa Loompas Steal the Show - The World of Willy Wonka
  November 25 - It is a glorious thing to be a Pirate King - Pirates of Penzance
• November 4 - Don Juan meets A Single Woman
• October 21 - Theatrical Delights: 9-11 and Clarence Darrow
• October 7 - On Golden Pond
• September 23 - Biloxi Blues
• September 16 - EMOS Ecodrama
• September 2 - Enter the Guardsman
• August 26 - Shakespeare at Benbow
• August 12 - Oklahoma and Brigadoon first column on the web
• July 29 - Miss Firecracker Contest
• July 22 - SF Mime Troupe
• July 8, 2004 - Woman in Black / Last 5 Years
• June 24, 2004 - Shadow of Giants
• June 10, 2004 - Mr. Roberts
• May 27, 2004 - Cabaret
• May 13, 2004 - Dell'Arte Celebrates 30 years
• April 29, 2004 - What's Wrong with This Picture?
• April 15, 2004 - Nightwatch

• A frog's eye view of the Chicago Region around 1800. Brush Piles, North Branch Restoration Project, Northbrook, IL. Summer 2002.

Published

• Frogs: Inside Their Remarkable World, ISBN: 1552978699, Firefly Books Ltd (September 3, 2005), 175 pages
• Monthly columns in the Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society, 1986 to present.
• Biweekly Behind the Stage Door column of theatre information and reviews for The North Coast Journal. Mid-April 2004 to present.
• For the Love of Orchids North Coast Journal Cover Story, April 14, 2005. Story and Photos.
• Artware Affair `05: A brief history of Art in Ferndale. 2005. The Ink People News, Eureka CA. February, Volume 26, Number 2, page one and several interior pages.
• Celebrating the Season - Christmas in Ferndale North Coast Journal Cover Story, December 2, 2004. Story and photos. Cover photo by Matt Knowles.
• In search of the ghosts of Rose Cottage North Coast Journal Cover Story, October 28, 2004. Story and photos.
• Kinetic Craziness: East Coast Style North Coast Journal Cover Story, May 20, 2004. Story and photos.
• Photograph: Left Rainbow July 2001 - south of Newcastle, Wyoming. Colorado State University, Community Collaborative Rain and Hail Study brochure. February 2, 2004. http://www.cocorahs.org
• Hobart Brown: The originator of the Kinetic Sculpture Race. Rotary Kinetic Sculpture Race Newsletter. 2003. Page 2. Perth, Western Australia.
• Fifty-one bimonthly columns in the Vivarium, magazine of the American Federation of Herpetoculturists from Volume 2 through Volume 9 and spanning 1989 to 1999. Vivarium is no longer published, it was bought and closed by Reptiles Magazine.
• A guide to frogs of the Chicago Region. Aquaticus, Journal of The Shedd Aquarium. 1996. Volume 26, Number 1, pages 25-40. Chicago, IL.
• Biological illustration: Cricket frog Acris crepitans. Aquaticus, Journal of The Shedd Aquarium. 1996. Volume 26, Number 1, page 49. Chicago, IL.
• End-Permian mass extinctions gradual not catastrophic. Abstract. Geological Society of America, November 7, 1995. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 1995. New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Status and distribution of the Illinois chorus frog, Pseudacris streckeri illinoensis, in four counties of West-Central Illinois. With Kenneth S. Mierzwa. Presentation and abstract, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 1993 Annual Meeting, August 7-12, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
• Snakes of the North Branch. August, 1993. Prairie Projections, North Branch Prairie Project 6(2):4-5.
• Photograph: An adult male Illinois chorus frog. Associated Press, April 14, 1993.
• North Branch Amphibians. February, 1993. Prairie Projections, North Branch Prairie Project 6(1):8-10. With three illustrations by the author.
• Care-in-captivity: Husbandry techniques for amphibians and reptiles. Chicago Herpetological Society. Second edition 1992. 93 pages.
• Distribution and status of the eastern massasauga rattlesnake, Sistrurus catenatus catenatus (Rafinesque, 1818), in the United States and Canada. First International Symposium and Workshop on the Conservation and Research of the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake, May 8 and 9, 1992. Metropolitan Zoo of Toronto, Canada. Proceedings May 1993.
• Selections from the writings of early travelers in north America concerning rattlesnakes. In: Collected Papers of the Tucson Herpetological Society, 1992.
• Letter to the Editor, Earth Magazine. August 28, 1992, 1(6):8.
• Illustration: Chicagoland uber allium. Cartoon illustration of Hyla versicolor clutching native wild onion. Newsletter of the Wild Onion Alliance, September 1991.
• Biological illustration of Rana sylvatica. Conscious Choice, Bioregional Issue, Summer 1991, 13:38.
• Biological illustrations of Rana pipiens, Acris crepitans, Rana catesbeiana, Bufo americanus and Bufo woodhousei fowleri. The Conservator, newsletter of the Illinois Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, Spring 1991:4-5.
• Surveying natural areas for reptiles and amphibians. Presentation and abstract. Proceedings of the 10th Northern Illinois Prairie Workshop. March 2, 1991.
• Diamondback terrapins: care in captivity. Notes from Noah, newsletter of the Northern Ohio Herpetological Society 1991, 18(6). Reprinted Chicago Turtle Club Newsletter, 1991.
• About venomous snakes in captivity. Newsletter of the League of Florida Herpetological Societies. January, 1991. Anton, Thomas G. and Ellin Beltz.
• History of the Chicago Herpetological Society, 1966-1990. Vivarium 1990, 2(6):15.
• Sidney's Song. Newsletter of the Minnesota Herpetological Society 1990, 10-10:6.
• Letter to the editor. Behind BAARS, newsletter of the Bay Area Amphibian and Reptile Society 1990, 13(10):1.
• On the original description of Masticophis flagellum piceus. Senior author with Hobart M. Smith. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 1990, 25:87.
• Airport sites have environmental drawbacks. Compass the Newsletter of the Chicago Audubon Society. May, 1990.
• Care in Captivity: Husbandry techniques for amphibians and reptiles. Editor, 1989. Chicago Herpetological Society, 93 pages.
• List of scientific names and original citations for the reptiles and amphibians of the continental United States and Canada, part II: salamanders. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 1989, 24(5):93-97.
• Translations of the scientific names of some Central Illinois herpetofauna. Newsletter of the Central Illinois Herpetological Society, Fall, 1989.
• List of scientific names and original citations for the reptiles and amphibians of the continental United States and Canada, part I: turtles. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 1988, 23(10):157-161.
• Selections from the writings of early travelers in north America concerning rattlesnakes. Newsletter of the Tucson Herpetological Society, November, 1988 1(10):84-88.
• A field trip in Lee County, Illinois. Notes from NOAH, newsletter of the Northern Ohio Herpetological Society, August, 1988:4-6.
• Letter to the editor Earthwatch Magazine. May, 1988:2.

Unpublished Reports

• Amphibians, reptiles and mammals of Edward L. Ryerson Conservation Area of Lake County, Illinois. Junior author with Kenneth S. Mierzwa. December 6, 1999. Prepared for Lake County Forest Preserve District. 33 pages, five appendices, six figures and five tables.
• Amphibians and reptiles of Glacial Park, McHenry County, Illinois: A report on monitoring of habitat use in a restored landscape, and on the reintroduction of an extirpated species. Junior author with Kenneth S. Mierzwa. March 1, 1994. Prepared under contract to the McHenry County Conservation District. 33 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures, and color cover illustration.
• Habitat associations and distribution of amphibians and reptiles at Middle Fork Savanna, Lake County, Illinois. Junior author with Kenneth S. Mierzwa. January 27, 1994. Prepared under contract to the Lake Forest Open Lands Association, The Nature Conservancy, and the Lake County Forest Preserve District. 68 pages, 9 tables, 5 figures, 13 maps, and cover illustration.
• Distribution and status of the Illinois chorus frog, Pseudacris streckeri illinoensis, in Cass, Menard, Morgan, and Scott Counties of West-central Illinois. September 30, 1993. Prepared under contract to the Illinois Department of Conservation, Division of Natural Heritage. 17 pages, 16 figures, two appendices (locality records).
• Preliminary report on the distribution and status of the Illinois chorus frog, Pseudacris streckeri illinoensis, in Cass, Menard, Morgan, and Scott Counties of West-central Illinois. May 15, 1993. Prepared under contract to the Illinois Department of Conservation, Division of Natural Heritage. 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 appendix (historical locality records).
• Final report on the status and distribution of the eastern massasauga, Sistrurus catenatus catenatus (Rafinesque, 1818), in Illinois. December 30, 1992. Prepared under contract to the Illinois Department of Conservation, Division of Natural Heritage. 36 pages, 5 figures, 1 table.
• Preliminary report on he status and distribution of the eastern massasauga, Sistrurus catenatus catenatus (Rafinesque, 1818), in Illinois. June 30, 1992. Prepared under contract to the Illinois Department of Conservation, Division of Natural Heritage. 12 pages, 5 figures, 1 table.
• Illinois chorus frog, Pseudacris streckeri illinoensis, 1991 survey of Cass, Menard, Morgan, and Scott Counties, Illinois December 16, 1991. Prepared under contract to the Illinois Department of Conservation, Division of Natural Heritage. 17 pages, 13 figures, 7 page appendix.
• Preliminary report of findings, Illinois chorus frog survey (Pseudacris streckeri illinoensis), March and April, 1991. June 30, 1991. Prepared under contract to the Illinois Department of Conservation, Division of Natural Heritage. 6 pages.

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