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Conservation Ecology of Mexican

Sky Island Herpetofauna

August 15-24 2008

We are pleased to announce our new field program, focused on the herpetofauna of a rare and wild Mexican Ecosystem, that of Sierra San Luis in Sonora, Mexico. We will be working with communities of reptiles and amphibians, which include the New Mexico Ridge-Nosed Rattlesnake, the Tarahumara Tiger Salamander, and the Short-horned lizard. Join us in the field for a unique research experience, while helping us document the diversity of life in this scenic corner of the world.

A juvenile Crotalus willardi obscurus, the New Mexico Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake, one of our study subjects in Sierra San Luis. The paint on its rattle is one way we can tell one individual from another.