Volunteering with Desert Tortoises
“There are quite a few rattlesnakes in the area, so please stay in your vehicle and text me when you arrive.” This message from Tegan Wolf, Desert Tortoise Adoption Program Coordinator for Arizona Game and Fish Department, was likely meant as a warning. But, for…
Caring Visitors
Driving home through White Tank Mountain Regional Park after engaging visitors with our snakes and skulls recently, Chuck braked when the car in front of us suddenly served to the right, barely missing a large gopher snake stretched in a serpentine shape across the middle…
Finally!
“I saw three snakes on my hike!” a visitor to White Tank Mountain Regional Park told us. “Gave me the willies!” Education About every other Sunday, Chuck and I take our snakes and skull collection to the Park to interact with visitors and introduce them…
Reactions
Can a dog be afraid of a mountain lion? Probably. But can a dog be afraid of a mountain lion skull? Maybe if the dog could sense traces of the dead animal. What about a replica of a mountain lion skull? Interacting with Visitors We…
BioBlitz for Reptiles
Please join Nevada Department of Wildlife for a Herp BioBlitz in the southern Ruby Mountains and northern Diamond Mountains in northeastern Nevada. “I was thinking of you when I received this message,” emailed Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge Interim manager, Tim Pratt. “We have full…
A Museum for Rattlesnakes?
While exploring a remote section of the Sonoran Desert at Imperial National Wildlife Refuge several years ago, I halted at the sound of a rattle and searched for its owner. Chuck was exploring a ways away, and when I spotted the diamondback, I called him…
Welcome Home!
Last year we created a reptile environment in our patio area in the hopes of attracting a lizard or two. When that didn’t happen, we picked up a little toad on our nightly walk through our neighborhood and brought it home where it took up…