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Sea Turtle Volunteer work in Costa Rica
The Cano Palma Biological Field Station, owned and operated by the Canadian Organization for Tropical Education and Rainforest Conservation (COTERC), sits peacefully on the bank of the Cano Palma River. The slow moving river is located on the northern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica inside the Barra Colorado Wildlife Refuge. The field station itself is…
Everglades Herping 2010
The Suncoast Herpetological Society Annual Everglades trip – 2010 [from October 2010] This past weekend Suncoast Herpetological Society participated in the 2nd annual Everglades trip! The fearless herping group consisted of myself, Bill, Doreen, Michele, and my friend Melody. We left on Saturday morning and we made it to Big Cypress Preserve at 3pm. We walked…
Herping in the Sugar Cane Fields around Hendry County
Florida is a great place to live if you love snakes. In fact, as I sat down to write this today my husband Bill came into the house to tell me there was a snake in our front yard. It was already gone when I went outside, but according to Bill it was a black…
Pennsylvania Herping
Creating Herping Opportunities While Traveling Vacation time is precious and it is usually well planned out for herping fanatics. As herpers we generally organize our trips around the weather, the season, and the moon phase. As a professor I have to plan my vacations around semester dates so I am limited for travel between September…
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year from Alice, TX With our relocation from Wimauma FL to Alice TX, 2023 was an especially hectic year for Redfoot Ranch. There were lots of challenges – moving all of our breeders and inventory over 1200 miles and starting from scratch to build the required fencing, housing, and shading. Everything is now…