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Keeper Trout with a head-sized Hericium.
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Keeper Trout
Summary
Keeper Trout (aka "Trout", "K. Trout", and "Keeper of the Trout") is an independent scholar and author. Although his university education in Texas focused on chemistry and microbiology, for the past two decades he has been studying altered states of consciousness, while compiling, cataloging, commenting on, and researching psychoactive plants. He has written and published numerous densely informative pamphlets and books on these topics, as part of his "Trout's Notes" series.

In 1995 and 1996, Trout penned the advice column "Ask Barney" (under the pseudonym "Barney Heffter") for the final two issues (#8 and #9) of the fringe magazine Crash Collusion. From 1998 until its demise in 2008, he acted as Technical Editor for The Entheogen Review and its sister publication in Germany, Entheogene Blätter, which was published between 2002 and 2007.

Trout has spoken at festivals worldwide, including Consciousness Technologies, Exodus (NSW), Entheogenesis Australis, Symbiosis, the Women's Visionary Congress, and numerous smaller gatherings. Since 2006, he has produced an annual invitational symposium focused on the topic of cacti. He is known for his contagious enthusiasm, willingness to help answer questions, and encyclopedic knowledge related to psychoactive plants and drugs. He is also an avid photographer, mycophile, and botanist. Trout has been actively involved as a volunteer with the Cactus Conservation Institute since 2004 assisting with web design, as well as photo documentation and other field work

Author of Books
  • Some Simple Tryptamines (2002/2007)
  • Trout's Notes San Pedro & Related Trichocereus Species (2005)
  • Ayahuasca: Alkaloids, Plants & Analogs (2004)
  • Trout's Notes on Some Other Succulents (2004)
  • Trout's Notes Tryptamine Content of Arundo donax (2004)
  • Desmanthus leptolobus (2004)
  • Trout's Notes on the Genus Desmodium (1996/2004)
  • Sacred Cacti: Botany, Chemistry, Cultivation & Utilization (2001)
  • Trout's Notes: Summary of the Reported Occurrences of Mescaline (1997/1999/2001)
  • Trout's Notes on the Cultivation & Propagation of Cacti (1996/1999/2001)
  • Trout's Notes: The Peyote Crisis & Some Suggestions (1995/1998/1999/2001)
  • Ayahuasca Analogues and Plant-Based Tryptamines: The Best of The Entheogen Review 1992-1999 [co-editor, with D. Aardvark and J. DeKorne] (2000)
  • Trout's Notes on Cultivation of Desmanthus for Rootbark Production (1995/2000)
  • Trout's Notes on Cactus Chemistry by Species (1999)
  • Trout's Notes on Ayahuasca and Ayahuasca Alkaloids (1997/1998)
  • Trout's Notes: Tryptamines from Higher Plants (1997/1998)
  • Trout's Notes on the Acacia Species Reported to Contain Tryptamines and/or Beta-Carbolines (1997/1998)
  • Trout's Notes: A Simple Alkaloid Volatizer (1995/1998)
  • Sacred Cacti and Some Selected Succulents: Botany, Chemistry, Cultivation and Utilization (1997)
  • Trout's Notes: 5-Bromo- and 5,6-Dibromo-DMT Fact Sheet (1997)
  • Author of Articles
  • "Limitations to Natural Production of Lophophora williamsii (Cactaceae) II. Effects of Repeated Harvesting at Two-Year Intervals in a South Texas Population" [with M. Terry, B. Williams, T. Herrera, and N. Fowler]. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (in press 2012)
  • "Limitations to Natural Production of Lophophora williamsii (Cactaceae) I. Regrowth and Survivorship Two Years Post Harvest in a South Texas Population" [with M. Terry, B. Williams, T. Herrera, and N. Fowler]. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 5(2):661-675 (2011)
  • "New Mescaline Concentrations from 14 Taxa/Cultivars of Echinopsis spp. (Cactaceae) ("San Pedro") and their Relevance to Shamanic Practice" [with O. Ogunbodede, D. McCombs, P. Daley, and M. Terry]. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 131(3):356-62 (2010)
  • "Peyote in the Wilds of Texas" [with B. Norton]. Erowid.org. (Nov 2010)
  • "Old Hair and Tryptamines". The Entheogen Review 16(4):146-9 (Dec 2008)
  • "Tolerance, Addiction, and Effective Pain Management", Opioids.com (archived 2001)
  • "Faith, Belief, and the Peyote Crisis" [with M. Hoffman] Entheos 1(2) (Winter 2001)
  • Book Reviews
  • Assorted book reviews by Keeper Trout posted to Erowid, including reviews of Conspiritor by Floyd Davis, The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control by David F. Musto, and Psychedelics Reimagined edited by Thomas Lyttle.