Author Archives: JDM
Kill S373
The efforts to ban 9 species of constrictors is now well underway. The Senate Bill number is 373. This bill is unacceptable and founded upon faulty information pushed forward by Animal Rights Activist organizations. This legislation must be stopped. Please … Continue reading
Take action now!
There is currently a large push by various government officials and animal rights groups to try and ban many species of reptiles from being kept and traded in the United States. Please do your part to get educated and to … Continue reading
Central Arizona Herping Trip from August 2009
We got a chance to head out for one night in August searching for reptiles. We headed into the deserts to the North and East of Phoenix and had some decent luck. It was a great outing! We tried some … Continue reading
Trip to White Mountains, Arizona
It was a slow year for me for herping this past season. I didn’t get a chance to get out much. I did make a few trips to the White Mountains and here are a couple of photos. Not much … Continue reading
Animal Rights groups and Reptile keepers
Wow. It has been a long time since my last post. I had no idea it was this long. In any case, I found a very good article that illustrates what animal rights groups are trying to do to the … Continue reading
Road herping banned in Texas
Yes….. if you can believe it, hunting for reptiles along public roadways has been outlawed. The way that it became outlawed was very underhanded and dishonest. There is a large effort underway to correct this ridiculous law. Please see this … Continue reading
Herping Banned in Texas?
There has been some severe abuses of power by some in Texas recently and there has been some behind the scenes trickery that has resulted in the passing of a bill that effectively bans the observation and collection of reptiles … Continue reading
Here is another photo from our outing last week
I have several pictures to post on the blog. I have had the chance to see several Chuckwallas up at South Mountain Park in the past few weeks. I found a patch nose snake yesterday morning, but it escaped before … Continue reading