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Author: Guest
March Intensive, it’s not school, it’s more than that. During the third week in March, Hanover High School students from Hanover, New Hampshire, leave traditional academia and get a snippet of what a real career looks like. The program is certainly not job shadowing because it’s a hands-on, immersive experience that sometimes unveils a student’s unknown passion, which may lead to a potential...

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Author: Staff
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) held the 2013 Herpetology Taxon Advisory Group (TAG) meetings on March 18-21, hosted by the Detroit...
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Author: Dirk Stevenson
“Canebrake” Rattlesnake is an established alternative common name for the Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) of the Southeast Coastal Plain....
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Author: Courtney Torregrosa
The role of the Orianne Center for Indigo Conservation (OCIC) in Eustis, Florida is to hold captive Eastern Indigos, raise them, and breed snakes for...
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Author: Javan Bauder
This article was co-authored by Dylan Kelly Counting trees may not seem like something you might do on an Eastern Indigo Snake project. Yet the...
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Author: Heidi Hall
This year The Orianne Society participated in the 46th Claxton Rattlesnake and Wildlife Festival hosted by the Evans County Wildlife Club in Claxton...
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Author: Dr. Steve Spear
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the 2013 Teaming with Wildlife (TWW) Fly-In in Washington DC on March 5-6. I was asked to attend this...
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Author: Dirk Stevenson
When an adult Eastern Indigo Snake emerges from a tortoise burrow the smoothness of its movements are nearly imperceptible. I have witnessed this in...
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Author: Dirk Stevenson
(This article was previously published in the Spring, 2013 issue of Georgia Backroads Magazine.) This past September, I found an Eastern Coral Snake...
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Author: Staff
On March 6th, 2013, The Orianne Society launched its very first online edition of Indigo, our Member Magazine, marking another addition to our Member...
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Author: Courtney Torregrosa
Most people in the United States are familiar with the Eastern Indigo Snake, Drymarchon couperi. However, the Eastern Indigo is not the only species...
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Author: Dirk Stevenson
On a recent cold morning-- overnight low of 30 degrees F, windchill at dawn 25--I climbed the remains of an old windrow, a small knoll of earth...
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Author: Heidi Hall
Have you ever heard of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)? It’s the oldest global conservation organization in the world,...