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Benewcomb wrote:Yeah we had a either 1or 2 inch I don’t remember. It doesn’t make much of a difference 6 inch or 2 inch, unless you have too much info. Then you resort to tiny font and page by page color coding.

I've had a 5" binder for Rocks, Fossils, and Herpetology so it does make a bit of a difference cutting that much size off IMO

So the only changes are:
Removed typhlopidae / brahminy blind snake
Added anaxyrus under bufonidae
Added "ornate chorus frog & spring peeper" to pseudacris common names
Added lithobates under ranidae
Added gastrophyrne under microhylidae?

I've had a 5" binder for Rocks, Fossils, and Herpetology so it does make a bit of a difference cutting that much size off IMO

I've always found it harder to find information in bigger binders, so what's your opinion on this? How was the five inch binder organized?

emxl wrote:

I've had a 5" binder for Rocks, Fossils, and Herpetology so it does make a bit of a difference cutting that much size off IMO

I've always found it harder to find information in bigger binders, so what's your opinion on this? How was the five inch binder organized?

I always have the list/some form of the list in the front, then general info and charts, then the specimen pages themselves (all in sheet protectors so I could take them out of the binder easily at competition)

ScottMaurer19 wrote:

emxl wrote:

I've had a 5" binder for Rocks, Fossils, and Herpetology so it does make a bit of a difference cutting that much size off IMO

I've always found it harder to find information in bigger binders, so what's your opinion on this? How was the five inch binder organized?

I always have the list/some form of the list in the front, then general info and charts, then the specimen pages themselves (all in sheet protectors so I could take them out of the binder easily at competition)

This seems to be the common pattern, but how do you have time to take out the sheets during competition?!

An addition to the rules for "laboratory stations" and removing anything from the binder at them:

"If the event features a rotation through a series of laboratory stations in which the participants interact with samples, specimens, or
displays no material may be removed from the binder while at, or in-between, laboratory stations."

I don't really understand the convenience of removing material in the first place. It's easy enough to simultaneously look at two pages in the binder, and it seems kind of time-wastey to take pages out. Maybe I just don't have a big enough binder though?

Unome wrote:

ScottMaurer19 wrote:

emxl wrote:
I've always found it harder to find information in bigger binders, so what's your opinion on this? How was the five inch binder organized?

I always have the list/some form of the list in the front, then general info and charts, then the specimen pages themselves (all in sheet protectors so I could take them out of the binder easily at competition)

This seems to be the common pattern, but how do you have time to take out the sheets during competition?!

Uhhh I think I only did it once or twice throughout the season. Rocks is more of where I took stuff out (my specific gravity chart) if I needed it to answer questions from a previous station

UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:I don't really understand the convenience of removing material in the first place. It's easy enough to simultaneously look at two pages in the binder, and it seems kind of time-wastey to take pages out. Maybe I just don't have a big enough binder though?

If, for example, I was working on answering the previous station while my partner was working on the current one, then I could just remove whatever page I needed, and let her use the binder if necessary. In my previous reply I mentioned Rocks, but the reason for removing pages there is a little bit more to do with a trick I used while competing.

So just a question: we can have field guides in our binders now?