Brian Kubicki hopes his  son, Kenneth Mark, is as fascinated by frogs as he was as a kid.  But it’s too soon to tell if his five-month-old with wife, Aura Reyes, will follow in dad’s footsteps.

Even as an adult, Kubicki, a 1993 graduate of Forest Lake High School, admits, “I’ve just always been crazy for critters.” His fondness for cold-blooded vertebrates lead Kubicki into founding the privately owned and operated Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center (C.R.A.R.C.) in 2002. See more in Jennifer Larson's feature story in the Forest Lake Times.

A passion for critters led Forest Lake High School graduate Brian Kubicki, pictured at left with wife, Aura Reyes, to found the Costa Rican Amphibian Center in 2002.

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