Echoes
From the Den
Well, here we are, in our eleventh year of existence. It seems as though it were just yesterday that a very small group of herp enthusiasts banded together to form the little community that is the West Texas Herpetological Society. My how things have changed since that inception date. Please check your newsletter to read over these changes and reflect on how these changes may impact you and/or your family. It is our goal that hopefully, these changes will be for the better.
There are also changes on the state level in regards to how herps can be collected in this great state of ours. Apparently under immense pressure from outside “activists” groups, Texas Parks and Wildlife has now deemed the time-honored tradition of “road-cruising” to be illegal, as is the walking of the PUBLIC rights-of-ways (ROW) to collect. TPWD’s stance is that you can observe, even photograph (or even run over them!), but you may not collect along or on a public tax-payed-for road in Texas.
Please keep the above paragraph in mind as you prepare to attend the
7th Annual Spring Roundup in June! Roy Engeldorff (Outback Oasis Hotel) has
been working non-stop to procure areas around Sanderson that the Society can
come and look for herps legally, without any pressure from the state. Please
make every effort to attend this event… it should really be a great time
exploring new areas!
Happy herpin’…
Michael Price
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