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Spiny Softshell Turtles ISSN 1540-773X THE NEWSLETTER/JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY Volume 6, Number 1 March 2017 1974-2017 Published by the Kansas Herpetological Society http://www.cnah.org/khs EDITORIAL BOARD Copy Editor KHS OFFICERS, 2017 DANIEL G. MURROW Hutchinson, Kansas President – DEXTER MARDIS 4424 E Central Article Editors EVA HORNE Wichita, KS, 67208 Kansas State University 417.239.4541: [email protected] GEORGE R. PISANI Kansas Biological Survey President-Elect – LYNNETTE SIEVERT LYNNETTE SIEVERT Department Of Biological Sciences Emporia State University Emporia State University WILLIAM STARK Emporia, KS 66801 Fort Hays State University 620.341.5606: [email protected] JAMES TRIPLETT Pittsburg State University Past-President – ERIC KESSLER Associate Editor 5624 Cherry Street CURTIS J. SCHMIDT Kansas City, Missouri 64111 Sternberg Museum of Natural History 816.444.4794: [email protected] Treasurer – DAREN RIEDLE LIAISON REPRESENTATIVES Kansas Dept. of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, & Tourism 512 SE 25th Ave DAREN RIEDLE Pratt, Kansas 67124 620.672.0746 620.672.0746: [email protected] Kansas Nongame Wildlife Advisory Council Secretary – KELLEY TUEL TRAVIS W. TAGGART 15669 S. Rene St 785.650.2445 Olathe, KS 66062 Sternberg Museum of Natural History 913.269.4414: [email protected] CURTIS J. SCHMIDT 785.650.2447 Historian – SUZANNE L. COLLINS The Center for North American Herpetology DISTINGUISHED LIFE MEMBERS 1502 Medinah Circle Lawrence, Kansas 66047 ROBERT F. CLARKE 785.393.2392: [email protected] Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas (1919–2008) Editor – TRAVIS W. TAGGART JOSEPH T. COLLINS Sternberg Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas 3000 Sternberg Drive Lawrence, Kansas Hays, Kansas 67601-2006 (1939–2012) 785.650.2445: [email protected] HENRY S. FITCH The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (1909–2009) EUGENE D. FLEHARTY STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas Field Trips - TRAVIS W. TAGGART HOWARD K. GLOYD Sternberg Museum of Natural History The University of Arizona, Tucson 3000 Sternberg Drive (1902–1978) Hays, Kansas 67601-2006 785.650.2445: [email protected] LARRY L. MILLER Seaman School District (USD 345), Topeka, Kansas Nominating – BRENT SCHULZE GEORGE R. PISANI 1508 Haney Dr. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas Hays, KS 67601 785-342-1532: [email protected] DWIGHT R. PLATT Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas Media & Publicity – SERENA J. RANDOLPH 507 S Millwood Street HOBART M. SMITH Wichita, KS 67213 The University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (1912-2013) 715.410.9866: [email protected] EDWARD H. TAYLOR Awards – DANIEL D. FOGELL The University of Kansas, Lawrence Southeast Community College (1889–1978) 8800 -O- Street ________________________________________ Lincoln, Nebraska 68520 402.437.2870: [email protected] Front Cover: Ring-necked Snake (Diadophis punctatus) by Tiffany A. Jehle www.cnah.org/khs/ ISSN 1540-773X Collinsorum VOLUME 6, NUMBER 1— MARCH 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from the President. Dexter R. Mardis ......................................................................................................................................... 2 KHS BUSINESS Minutes of the 26 February 2017 KHS Executive Council Meeting, Kelley Tuel .................................................................................................................................................. 3 The KHS Spring Field Trip to be held in the Flint Hills of Elk County, Travis W. Taggart ........................................................................................................................................ 5 Kansas Herpetological Society Treasurer’s Report for 2017 KHS Midyear Meeting, J. Daren Riedle ........................................................................................................................................... 6 OTHER BUSINESS 2017 Fort Riley Annual Herpetological Survey Set Mike Houck ................................................................................................................................................. 7 NOTES Results from Three Herpetofaunal Tallies at Wichita State University’s Youngmeyer Ranch in Northwestern Elk County Dexter R. Mardis ......................................................................................................................................... 8 A New State Size Record for the Red-spotted Toad (Anaxyrus punctatus): Implications for a Species in Need of Conservation in Kansas Matthew F. Jones, Nicole D. Dzenowski, and David S. Mcleod .............................................................11 Early Chorusing Activity for Some Kansas Anurans Jennifer Rader .......................................................................................................................................... 16 Recent Sightings of the Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake at Kanopolis State Park, Ellsworth County, Kansas Paxon Hutto and Travis W. Taggart ........................................................................................................ 13 Winter Predation of an Adult Spiny Softshell (Apalone spinifera) likely committed by a Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in Central Nebraska Joshua D. Wiese, Kelsey C. King, Andrew J. Caven*, and Nicole Arcilla ........................................... 14 Carroll County, Arkansas Herpetofaunal Adventure Jennifer N. Smith ...................................................................................................................................... 19 KHS 2017 Field Trips You can now pay your 2017 dues On-line... Spring Beaumont, KS / Elk County 21-23 Apr. Visit the KHS Website Summer Ellis/Russell counties 21-23 Jul. cnah.org/khs Fall Kanopolis State Park 29 Sep. - 1 Oct. ...now, and never miss out! Collinsorum 6(1) March 2017 1 www.cnah.org/khs/ LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear KHS Members: welcome back to the editorship! I look forward to working with you this year! As we head into this new year of Kansas Additionally to the EC changes, there are a Herpetology, I decided to reach out and commu- few alterations to the Committee Chairs. As nicate directly with our members, old and new. President, it is my constitutional duty to ap- First off, thank you for the continued support point committee chairs every year, and I’ve and participation that makes KHS one of the given great deliberation in these matters. First, longest lived and most productive Dan Carpenter is stepping down as Chair of the regional herp societies in the Nominations Committee. Dan has ably guided country. that boat for several years, and it’s bittersweet I’d like to encourage you to see him step down. Replacing Dan as Chair to continue this tradition of the Nomination Committee will be Brent and join us for at least one Schulze, from Denver, Colorado. Brent sits on of the three field trips that the steering committee for Colorado Partners we will host this year! Travis for Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, and Taggart (Field Trip Chair) is I think he’ll serve KHS splendidly as the Com- working to ensure a most mittee Chair. Secondly, Serena Randolph of enjoyable and educational Friends University has agreed to my request experience is had by all. So of Chairing the Media and Publicity Committee. look ahead in this issue of Serena will work closely with myself and Travis Collinsorum for more details, to produce press releases to the media across and make plans to join us! Kansas advertising our field trips and annual Following that, the next bit of busi- meeting to the public, as well as providing ness to which I’d like to attend regards a follow-up releases discussing the (presumed) changing of the guard on several committees, success of the events. as well as welcoming new (and old) faces to Finally, plans are underway for the 44th Annual the Executive Council! First, I’d like to formally Meeting of the KHS! It will be in Wichita, over the welcome Lynnette Sievert to the position of weekend of 4 & 5 November. Currently, Friends President-elect, having emerged victorious from University is slated to host the paper sessions, the first contested election that KHS has seen and we will adjourn to the Sedgwick County in several years. Welcome, Lynette! I look for- Zoo for yet another rousing, highly successful ward to getting to know you better, and working auction! More ideas are in the works, such as together in the next two years! Hopefully this possibly hosting a pre-meeting workshop or also means that Emporia State University will micro-conference, and inviting local food trucks continue to make their presence known at Field to Friends U. to provide lunch. For those of you Trips and the Annual Meeting. The second change who met with us in Wichita for the 40th Annual in EC that I’d like to acknowledge is the transi- Meeting, you’ll be pleased to know that the tion of Eric Kessler to Immediate Past-President, exotic looking, uniquely flavored pastries from replacing Dan Fogell who stepped back into the the Donut Whole will make another appearance position last year when it was abdicated by as well! The Suzanne L. and Joseph T. Collins Walter Meshaka. Thank you, Dan, for stepping Award for Excellence in Kansas Herpetology will up and helping, even after your commitment be awarded for the best photograph of a spe- of service had expired! And thank you, Eric, for cies of amphibian or reptile native to Kansas, presiding over the KHS in 2016 and
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