Annual Meeting: Dinner, Brief Business, Election, Auction, Featured Speaker

18 November 2024

6pm-9pm

Brother John’s BBQ

1801 N Stone Ave

Tucson AZ 85705

It has been another successful year with the Tucson Herpetological Society. With the help of our dedicated members, we were able to run several outreach events throughout the year, go on trips, and raise thousands for conservation and research projects. As we approach the end of the year, it is time to reflect on these accomplishments and look to next year by electing our officers for 2025. Statements from each of the nominees here: https://tucsonherpsociety.org/2024/11/03/2025-ths-officer-slate/.

Along with the meeting and election, there will be food, prizes, a silent auction, merchandise sales, and a presentation by Tom Weaver from the Desert Museum (see below).

You must register for this at:
https://ths28.wildapricot.org/event-5906262 

For further information or comments: tucsonherps@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you!

To addend virtually, click on this link:
https://arizona.zoom.us/j/89115781391

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Project Obscurus:
A Recovery Project for the New Mexico Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake,
Crotalus willardi obscurus

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Los Angeles Zoo, and San Antonio Zoo have partnered to join Phase I of The Rattlesnake Conservancy’s “Project Obscurus,” a landmark international recovery program for the federally threatened New Mexico ridge-nosed rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi obscurus). The three zoos will participate in a head-start breeding program aimed at bolstering and diversifying the genetics of the U.S. populations of this rattlesnake through selective managed breeding and eventual release of offspring into native habitat.

Presented by

Thomas Weaver
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Curator of
Herpetology, Ichthyology, and Invertebrate Zoology