Featured Contributors
With our Featured Contributors program, kingsnake.com brings you the latest news and updates from the biggest names in reptiles and amphibians, to share their decades of experience and knowledge with our community.
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About Our Featured Writers and Contributors
 Jeff Barringer
Publisher - Featured Contributor
Founder of kingsnake.com, Jeff Barringer is a veteran field hobbyist with almost three decades of experience roaming the thorn-scrub or Texas is search of reptiles and amphibians. A specialist in snakes of the Genus Lampropeltis, or kingsnakes and milk snakes, Jeff is very active in the reptile communities legal/political process, and is one of the founders of NRAAC. |
 Christie Keith
Editor In Chief - Featured Contributor
Longtime PetHobbyist and Connected By Pets Community and Social Media Director Christie Keith has been editing the kingsnake.com site blog since it's launch in 2007, and working with the kingsnake.com community since 2001. A nationally known pet writer, Christie is active in the Rescue and No-Kill Shelter community. |
 Richard D. Bartlett
Featured Contributor
Author, photographer, and columnist Richard Bartlett is one of the most prolific writers on herpetological subjects in the 20th century. With hundreds of books and articles to their credit, Richard and his wife Pat have spent over four decades documenting reptiles both in the field and in captivity. For a list of their current titles, please visit their page in our bookstore. |
 Patricia Bartlett
Featured Contributor
A former museum director and book editor, author Patricia Bartlett has written about natural history topics for countless books, magazines, and web sites. Along with husband Richard, she has spent over four decades documenting reptiles and other animals and invertebrates both in the field and in captivity. For a list of their current titles, please visit their page in our bookstore. |
 Phil Goss
Featured Contributor
Longtime reptile breeder, hobbyist, and member of the reptile industry, Phil Goss is the President of the United States Association of Reptile Keepers (USARK), the reptile communities National grass roots organization that works on regulatory issues at the local, state and federal levels. |
 Gerold Merker
Featured Contributor
High school biology teacher Gerold Merker is a noted author and photographer with a passion for Americas southwestern deserts. Along with books about the Gray-banded Kingsnake and California Mountain Kingsnake, he has written articles regarding reptile and invertebrate care, as well as notes from the field in periodicals such as Reptiles Magazine and The Vivarium. |
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