User:Ellin Beltz

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This editor is a Most Plusquamperfect Looshpah Laureate and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix and Free Errata Sheet. This user participates in WikiProject California. This user is a participant in WikiProject Geology. Shortcut WP:ABC Shortcut WP:NRHP Shortcut WP:GLAM Shortcut WP:DYK	Work in progress My sandbox. Did you know all this stuff about *my* DYK? Adding photos to National Register of Historic Places listings in Humboldt County, California Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Humboldt County, California In Progress Category:Redwood Empire geography stubs[1] Category:Humboldt County, California geography stubs[2] Humboldt Military District Compare "Category:People from Eureka, California" to Eureka's notables. Got up to G so far. Ghost towns of Humboldt working list. Edit count Combines Special:Preferences totals for edit counts. Date WikiEdits CommonsEdits Total 09/09/12 1,454 1,858 3,312 11/02/13 3,921 5,838 9,759 01/05/14 4,456 7,624 12,080 02/25/14 4,858 11,231 16,089* 11/07/14 5,697 36,119 41,816 08/08/16 5,953 61,623 67,576 start Commons Admin	Wikiprojects This user has been a major contributor to 7 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. This user contributes to Wikimedia Commons. This user has photographed 0 0 2 0 sites on the National Register of Historic Places This user lost count at 20... it might be more! This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 1 month and 19 days. This user has been a Wikipedian since March 2006 en-5 This user is able to contribute with a professional level of English. This user fights vandalism with love. This user is owned by one or more cats.
Contributed to Frank P. Belotti Hobart Brown Henry Bryant Edward Drinker Cope François Chéreau Jacques Chéreau W.H. Dall Joseph Gayetty Theodore Gill Josiah Gregg, DYK 25 March 2013 Dan Hauser Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden Nancy Kelsey Barry Keene Robert Kennicott Kinetic Sculpture Race Henry P. Larrabee The Megatherium Club Donald C. Peattie Dr. Laurence Peter S.A.D. Puter The Russian American Telegraph Henry Crecy Yarrow Natural history Caulerpa lentillifera - algae references	Started Pages - People Sally Tanner, DYK 27 August 2012 Stephen William Shaw, DYK 22 February 2011, 2000 views Fusakichi Omori, DYK 17 May 2011, 1700 views Started Pages - Places A. Berding House, National Landmark Alford-Nielson House, National Landmark Blue Lake Museum, local museum Camp Curtis, California State Historic Landmark Centerville Beach Cross, California State Historic Landmark E. Janssen Building, National Landmark, DYK 2 January 2014, <100 views Ferndale Main Street Historic District, National Landmark Ferndale Public Library, National Landmark The Ferndale Museum, local museum F. W. Andreasen-John Rossen House, National Landmark George McFarlan House, National Landmark Grizzly Bluff School, National Landmark Humboldt Bay Life-Saving Station, National Landmark, DYK 9 April 2012 Humboldt Bay Woolen Mill, National Landmark List of museums in the North Coast (California), local museums Lower Blackburn Grade Bridge, National Landmark Masonic Temple (Ferndale, California), Ferndale Historic District Palace Saloon, Ferndale Historic District Prairie Creek Fish Hatchery, National Landmark Sugar Loaf Island (California), Marine protected island The Old Arrow Tree, California, California State Historic Landmark Trinidad Head, landscape feature Started Pages - Things Macrocystis integrifolia, kelp SS Northerner, shipwreck at Centerville 1860.	Regional page contributions Albeeville, California Bayside, California Carson Mansion Eureka, California Douglas City, California Fernbridge, California Ferndale, California Ferndale Unified School District Eureka's Carnegie Library Indian Island (Humboldt Bay) Humboldt Bay Humboldt County, California Lost Coast Brewery Salt River, California DYK 25 October 2013 The Shaw House Tsauri village Yontocket, California (partial list)

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Biography

Everyone has had to write an official biography at some point or another. Here's mine... Ellin Beltz (1956 - living) is an American writer. Her latest book Frogs: Inside Their Remarkable World was published in hardcover September 2005, and in paperback September 2009, by Firefly Books in Toronto, Canada. Named for her godmother, Ellin Mackay Berlin, she had an "exotic" childhood and now lives in Ferndale, California after Chicago, New York and several other places. Since 1986, Ellin has researched the meaning of the scientific names of the reptiles and amphibians of North America, including the biographies of hundreds of people honored in the nomenclature and published it on her personal website: *The Names of Reptiles and Amphibians Explained. Many of these biographies have been widely copied on the web, many have made their way into Wikipedia over the years. Retired from university and college teaching of geology, biology and geography, she continues research and contribution to Wikipedia.