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Herping near Tallahassee, Florida

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bluehunter40

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Hello All,
I have a good friend up in Tall completing some training for several months. We are interested in doing some herping in the spring. Any tips, tricks, or advice would be great. We would also be interested in going with someone with some local knowledge. And just to be up front, we are both FWC employees.
Tim
 
Poke around in the Apalachicola National Forest. I've seen plenty of frogs, lizards, and some DOR snakes, but nothing of the slithering variety alive in the woods. Only a matter of good timing with the weather and such, I'm sure.

The ANF is considered to be an awesome herping location, so I'm just obviously doing something wrong.
 
as Joe said, definitely check out ANF around Wakulla. Wakulla springs is cool. went there on their cheesy guided boat tour and saw brown snakes, rat snakes, lots of gators, turtles, fish, birds...
and check out around the St. Marks area. just went there recently for the monarch butterfly festival a couple months ago and saw a huge gator just hanging out. also saw a bunch of different kinds of snakes, tree frogs, toads, soft shell turtles, cooters....and on the coast we saw hundreds of hermit and fiddler crabs. we went in the morning though. and there werent a lot of people around.
http://www.fws.gov/saintmarks/
 
O.K. I am not too sure of the actual location but I understand that Rich lives in those parts and occasionally one may accidentally get away soo..... :sidestep:
 
bluehunter40 said:
Florida Fish and Wildlife Commision
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Actually, I believe that it is the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission now. I used to work for them several years ago.

I've heard of people finding kings and corns along Tram Road, but never spent any time looking there myself. That's in the southeast area of Tallahassee. Also heard of kings turning up near the lighthouse at St. Marks Refuge. Found a real interesting DOR king below Wacissa on route 59. Since you can get to Wacissa from Tallahassee via Tram road, it makes an interesting drive. Unfortunately, traffic has been steadily increasing all over this area, so finding an AOR is probably pretty hard to do these days.

Temps have been warming up nicely, so you may have some luck. This is around the time of year that a lot of people come to this area to look for scarlet kings in the national forest. Hope for heavy rains, wear boots, and be prepared to peel bark off of pine trees. Corns and blotched kings have also been found that way.

About the only snake hunting I have done in the last several years was to go road cruising down near Sopchoppy looking for rough green snakes. I just wanted a bunch of them to release on my property. I can't think of anything else I would really want to catch myself any longer.

And yes, finding oddball corn snakes in my neck of the woods is a DEFINITELY possibility........... :rolleyes:
 
The full name is:
Florida Fish and Wildlife Consercation Commission We just say FWC

Anyway thanks for the info. I just mentioned that because we can't do anything like tresspass, or take snakes that require permits we dont have and so forth. I was hoping we might find some others interested in joining us. Its just only fair to disclose that.
Thanks and please keep any info you have comming.
Tim
 
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