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     Sept. 5 monthly meeting will be our Show & Tell, Swap & Sell from 3 - 5 PM at the MOSH.  

Field Trips

St. Augustine Alligator Farm
Field Trip Sept, 19

"CURRENT PAID MEMBERS ONLY"

$5.00 a piece to get in. Behind the scenes tours...

Reptile Discovery Center
Oct. 30th

  "CURRENT PAID MEMBERS ONLY"

$5.35 to get in...behind the scenes tour...bring a lunch

JHS is now a Non Profit Organization

Honorary Members

   Margery Johnston  

FWC
LICENSE TO POSSESS CLASS III WILDLIFE FOR EXHIBITION OR PUBLIC SALE --- $50.00
Click here for permit application
Disaster Plan Form

New Wildlife Investigator in our Area

Investigator Kevin Larson
NC Region Investigations
Division of Law Enforcement

(386) 758-0529
(904) 536-5689, cell
(888) 404-FWCC (3922) Wildlife Alert

Kevin.Larson@MyFWC.com

JHS Scholarship Winner 2009
Chris Hartmann

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of pasted meeting.
 

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MOSH   MVP

July 10,  2010

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Members  Profiles

Check out our Members Profiles

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Apr.  2010        Tim Manucy

Please submit member profiles by the 15th of each month.

CNN to Promote Radical Animal Rights Agenda
 (7-5-10)
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DEADLINE Monday 8/2/2010
 (7-29-10)
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Our Meetings

The Jacksonville Herpetological Society is now a Non profit Organization.
 Join us on the first Sunday of each month 3:00PM -5:00PM  in the meeting room of MOSH
 Click here for membership application

Museum of Science & History  (MOSH)
1025 Museum Circle, Jacksonville, Florida
 

Saturday's Auction at Daytona Expo

The USARK  Auction was a great success.  The JHS had many members there but Teresa and Courtney pretty much took charge of the initial setup of all the tables and organizing of the auction room. They were wore out at the end of the day but they did a fantastic job.  They did a GREAT job of representing the JHS well.  The auction raised $44,000 with Zoo Med matching that dollar for dollar.  Please remember that USARK is working hard to help us keep our reptiles. Please support USARK.

August Meeting

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See Florida's Current rules and regulations concerning non-native species and wildlife kept as pets.
Click the link below

http://myfwc.com/nonnatives/RuleRegs.html

The Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve (SIWR) is being threatened by strip mining. Cape Alumina Pty Ltd has lodged mining lease applications which include approximately 12,300 ha of the Reserve. Cape Alumina company documents indicate an intention to mine 50 plus million tons over a 10 year period commencing 2010. The greater part of this mine is on SIWR

There is a crisis in the reptile community, a crisis of apathy. We are beset by interests that would end the hobby and business that all of us love. Animal Rights groups have been on the march for eight years on a national campaign to end reptile ownership state by state. They have successfully enacted their model legislation and restricted private ownership of many reptiles in about a dozen states.

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Pet of the Month

This is AJ with his beautiful Columbian Red-tailed Boa, Snake-ums.
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Coloring

Last update:

Sept. 1,  2010

Reptile found in Ocala forest
 concerns experts.

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Snake Game
Bet you can't get to level 4

JHS Upcoming Events

Monthly Meeting
Show and Tell, Swap and sell
Bring all your favorite reptiles for all the other members to see.  This is also open to all the MOSH visitors and the room is always the busiest place in the MOSH that day.  Where the members get a chance to see what reptiles other members keep as pets and the MOSH visitors get to learn more about our great hobby.

 Photo Contest
We will be having a photo contest at our Sept meeting so start taking some good photos. We do have rules... The pictures must be taken by you. No picture frames. These are the categories, Amphibians, Bloids, Colubrids, Crocodilians, Lizards, Turtles & Tortoises, Venomous, other (Tarantulas, Scorpions, etc.). Kids category (kid draw and color a reptile)
YOU MAY ONLY USE 3 PHOTOS
ONLY 1 PER CATEGORY
So chose your photos wisely. We will be voting on our favorites. If you have any questions, just ask your Board Members.

MVP 
(JHS Museum Volunteer Program at MOSH ) JHS is  looking for JHS members to volunteer a few hours at our table. MVP is from 10 AM until 3 PM. Come anytime you can and stay as long as you want. I know you will enjoy it! 

New T-shirts are in.
See Liz at the next meeting.

Local Area Happenings  

Earth Day

Earth Day was April 17 at the Jacksonville Landing. It was a beautiful day and we had many JHS volunteers there with their reptiles to show all the visitors.

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 Earth Day  Apr. 17, 2010

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Butterfly Festival

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The Butterfly Festival was April 24 at Tree Hill Nature Center, 7152 Lone Star Rd.

Nonnative Pet Amnesty Day

The next Nonnative Pet Amnesty Day will be at the Jacksonville Zoo
 Sept. 25,  2010
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JHS volunteers logged 38 hours of volunteer time at MOSH Thank-you all!

Sponsors

  We would like to thank Ron Smith from the House of Reptiles for the large bag of aspen for our reptile rescue.

Mid West Tongs

We are pleased to be using Gentle Giant Tongsä for our reptile rescue.

  Thank you Charles Cardell of Cider Reptiles & Rodents, Inc. who has donated quite a bit of stuff to the reptile rescue.

Thanks to Tim Manucy of By The Shores Reptiles for all his donations to the JHS Reptile Rescue.

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