Please join us at one of our meetings! We look forward to seeing you!
Los Angeles Chapter:
The LA Chapter meets on the first Saturday of the month beginning at 6 pm.
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SWHS1/
To join our meetings please contact webmaster@swhs.org for details. All are welcome!
Founded in 1954 in Orange County, the SWHS has met continuously in a variety of locations over the years. Membership is open to anyone interested in the study & conservation of reptiles & amphibians. Check out our Facebook page!
Location: Our monthly meetings are the first Saturday of the month at 6 pm at the Deukmejian Wilderness Park 3429 Markridge Road, Glendale 91214. We meet in the Ranch House. After you enter the park drive all the way to the very top of the road (past the Stone Barn Nature Center) until the road dead ends. Turn left and park in front of the Ranch House. In winter months the park closes at 6 pm so make sure you are inside before the gates are locked. Park staff will reopen the gates at 8 pm after our meeting to let us drive out.
April 6:
Join us Saturday, April 6th at 6 pm at Deukmejian Wilderness Park for a presentation by Max Roberts: Project Rattlecam! Using live-stream cameras to spy on rattlesnakes and change the public perception of snakes.
Rattlesnakes (and snakes more generally) are some of the most universally feared animals. If only people could watch the natural behavior of snakes. Then, people could see that there is more to these amazing animals than first meets the eye.
This is becoming possible with Project RattleCam, a series of projects overseen by Dr. Emily Taylor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo aimed at researching the secret lives of rattlesnakes and providing opportunities for the public to learn about rattlesnakes. Through the use of both camera traps and live-streaming cameras, this work has revealed many new and exciting discoveries about rattlesnakes behavior and shows great promise for helping to change how people feel about rattlesnakes. At this week’s talk, Max Roberts will discuss the findings and story of Project RattleCam, as well as the future plans for this work and how you can become involved in this innovative research.
Max Roberts is a biological sciences graduate student in the Physiological Ecology of Reptiles Laboratory (PERL) at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. His thesis research involves utilizing live-streaming cameras to study the homeostatic behaviors of Prairie Rattlesnakes at a high elevation den site in the Colorado Rockies.
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