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News Events: Herp Photo of the Day: Kingsnake..........Herp Photo of the Day: Gecko..........DFW Herpetolocial Society Meeting - Sept. 19, 2020..........Reptiles At The York Expo Center - Sept. 19, 2020..........All Maryland Reptile Show - Oct. 03, 2020..........New England Reptile Expo - Oct. 04, 2020..........Northern Virginia Reptile Show - Oct. 10, 2020..........DFW Herpetolocial Society Meeting - Oct. 17, 2020..........Richmond Reptile Expo - Oct. 24, 2020..........The Reptile Expo - Oct. 26, 2020..........All Maryland Reptile Show - Nov. 07, 2020..........Battlefield Reptile Expo - Nov. 14, 2020.......... Looking for a reptile or amphibian related business? Our directory lists some of the most popular herp businesses in the world. List Your Business - Update Your Listing Expos, club meetings, symposiums, and other events are great places to network with other herpers. Check out the detailed or state by state event lists by clicking here!.News BriefsFL UPDATE: Judge Rules Changes are UnconstitutionalCindy Steinle - Friday, Sep 04, 2020 There was some great news regarding the regulation changes for Florida; including Tegus, Iguanas and a selection of large constrictors. This is the announcement from USARKFL:We have some news... good news. The judge agreed with USARK FL and found that SB1414 is in fact unconstitutional! We will post full details soon but the judge granted our motion for summary judgment and now we just await his formal order stating the same. Thank you to everyone who supported us. Please keep the donations coming! We must still pay for this lawsuit and future actions. What a win!NOTE: This will take a few days to all be finalized and for FWC to rescind their Executive Order. We also do not know if FWC will appeal. Also, by "unconstitutional" we mean the Florida Constitution, not the U.S. Constitution. This is a state lawsuit against a state agency, not a federal lawsuit.Please stay tuned to both USARK and USARKFL to follow updates and please continue to support USARK. They are getting things done!Featured ContributorsGreat Basin Collared LizardRichard Bartlett - Monday, Aug 24, 2020 Finally! Jake immortalizing the collared lizardThroughout this trip we had hip-hopped into and out of Arizona and we were now aiming for it again.One of the lizard species that Jake wanted badly to see was the Great Basin Collared Lizard, Crotaphytus bicinctores. On earlier trips I had found these rock lovers common but on this trip they had proven nonexistent. We drove to many out-of-the-way locales and failed to see this pretty lizard, even where other observers had reported them only a few days earlier. Jake’s estimate is that we scanned 10,000 rocks to no avail. My estimate of the rocks scanned is about twice greater than Jake’s.But finally, almost at the edge of the species’ range, Jake hollered” “STOP! I think I just saw one. Back up.” I followed his instructions and sure enough, sitting on the largest rock in an extensive pile was one lone Great Basin Collared Lizard. Another lifer for Jake. Fortunately the lizard seemed unconcerned by our presence and allowed us to take dozens of pix at close range.The Grand Canyon was still closed due to the Covid-19 scare, so we traveled far into the Navajo Nation to try our luck, again for the Great Basin Collared Lizard as well as in hopes of other species. Even though another cold front had arrived we were fortunate enough to see a Great Basin Gopher Snake, another Lyre Snake, and a very pretty Night snake.We were down to just one last night in the Sonoran Desert. Despite the seasonal chill we elected to try our luck for burrowing snakes in southeastern Arizona. Continue reading "Great Basin Collared Lizard" Sidewinders and a Ground Snake.Richard Bartlett - Monday, Aug 17, 2020 Like most, this Mojave Desert Sidewinder blends well with habitat color.Now on to Utah where our target species was a Great Basin Rattlesnake, Crotalus oreganus lutosus (although the older taxonomy of C. viridis lutosus seems more fitting). But of course there were secondary targets to look for along the way. This night our “along the way” was in eastern California where we were hoping for a Colorado Desert Sidewinder, Crotalus cerastes cerastes, the only one of the 3 subspecies that Jake still needed. We had driven northward at dusk while darkness settled in.Jake and I had been discussing the locales we needed to try for the Great Basin Rattler. Mother Nature, with her typical disregard for traveling herpers had continued to plague us with night temperatures just a couple of degrees too cool for night active species to be out and active. Many of the species on this trip that we had thought would be easy finds, shoe-ins if you will, had proven difficult at best. We were now down to only 3 days/nights remaining on this trip and the temperatures showed every indication of being problematic at best. So, with temps against us, we simply had to put as many hours on the road as possible.About a half hour north of the almost ghost town of Trona we decided to turn around and head for the motel. Traffic was light but there were continually headlights behind us. Since were going fairly slow it didn’t take long for us to be overtaken. Trona was now behind us and several cars were closing the gap. Just about as several were poised to pass us, Jake hollered “sidewinder.” I had passed over it and once the cars whipped by I was able to turn and speed back. Sure enough, still lying quietly coiled in mid-lane was Jake’s lifer Colorado Desert Sidewinder.Southward again and there was another sidewinder but we simply assured that it left the pavement. Was that a piece of rope in the other lane? I was able to stop quickly and Jake hopped out and returned with a beautiful little tricolored Variable Ground Snake, Sonora semiannulata. We were happy and now the motel was in sight.Tomorrow Utah, tomorrow night, hopefully, a Great Basin Rattlesnake. Continue reading "Sidewinders and a Ground Snake."

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