VPI Publications
This Publications section of VPI.com is where we place articles relevant to the care and husbandry of snakes, a place where our readers can find solid and current information and answers to questions and problems that are encountered in the day-to-day maintenance of snakes.
We also will post a series of article on the care and maintenance of a variety of species of snakes. We will try to place some articles here that regard snakes about which
We welcome our readers to submit articles that they have written, as well. Please send articles to the Dave the editor and webmaster at vpi@beecreek.net.
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Recent VPI Publications
- On Burmese Pythons in the Everglades (1.4 MB PDF)
April 20, 2009, Dave and Tracy Barker
Senators and government biologist are doing their best to make this into a national problem with a carefully scripted program of exaggeration and fear.
- TJB Written Testimony regarding HR-669 (1.19 MB PDF)
April 23, 2009, Tracy M. Barker
Regarding the Anti-Animal proposal, HR-669
- DGB Testimony to HR-669 Subcommittee (43.74 KB PDF)
April 23, 2009, David G. Barker
Entered into the record of the meeting 4/23/09
- The Maintenance and Reproduction of the Dwarf Python of Angola and Namibia (2.62 MB PDF)
January 01, 1995, Dave and Tracy Barker
Scanned from the original, published in The Vivarium 7(1)
- Will they come in out of the cold? Observations of large constrictors in cool and cold conditions (495.32 KB PDF)
June 26, 2008, Dave Barker
Published in the Bulletin of the Chicago Herp Society
- Review: An Ecological Risk Assessment of Nonnative Boas and Pythons as Potentially Invasive Species in the US (295.91 KB PDF)
review
- Dave Barker's response to the USF&W Notice of Inquiry (83.84 KB PDF)
Dave Barker
Dave's response
- Tracy Barker's Response to the USF&W Notice of Inquiry (25.53 KB PDF)
Tracy Barker
Tracy's response
- An Open Letter to Dr Snow Regarding the Origins of the Pythons in Everglades National Park (75.56 KB PDF)
On the origin of Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park
- The Distribution of the Burmese Python, Python molurus bivittatus (1.55 MB PDF)
March 26, 2008
A map, explanation, and biblography on the distribution of the Burmese python
- Comments on a Flawed Herpetological Paper and an Improper and Damaging News Release from a Government Agency (257.46 KB PDF)
Comments on the analysis of Rodda, Jarnevich and Reed that indicates the climate of the southern third of the United States is suitable for Burmese pythons, and the USGS news release.
