University of Kansas Field Station: Cumulative field records of snake species collected by Dr. Henry S. Fitch 1948 - 2003, with a few additional records collected 2004 - 2016. Records contain capture locations, measurements, notes on reproduction, recapture, and growth data. This data package conta

Dr. Henry S. Fitch began his pioneering research on the snake fauna of
the Fitch Natural History Reservation and adjacent University of
Kansas Field Station in 1948. Fitch remained an active researcher
until the early 2000s. For nearly six decades he conducted extensive
field work on snakes using capture/recapture techniques, and compiled
other biological data as well (e.g., all snakes captured were weighed,
measured, and marked with incomplete data collected on reproduction,
stomach contents, and recaptures). This research resulted in scores of
scientific publications on the ecology of the snakes. Henry S. Fitch
died in 2009 and left as a legacy hand-written data sheets with
approximately 60,000 capture records. George R. Pisani, a biologist at
the University of Kansas and later at the Kansas Biological Survey,
collaborated with Fitch on some ecological studies. Beginning about
2005, Pisani began the many-year process of converting the thousands
of Fitch’s records of snake captures into an electronic database. This
work was funded in part by the Kansas Dept. of Wildlife, Parks and
Tourism Chickadee Checkoff Program.