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Joshua Tree, Palm Springs, Sonoran
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by exeter on August 26, 2003
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Does anyone know of any good places to go herping around these locations. I've been trying to find a Gila Monster but have been unsuccessful. Looking for colubrids as well. I need a place for the long weekend.
snee44@aol.com
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Anonymous post on August 26, 2003
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I know it's probably paranoid of me, but someone named Shawn Nee ?? Wanting information on where to "find" Gilas??? Sounds like the police looking to entrap someone...
My apologies in advance if I'm wrong, but you know what they say about looking, quacking and walking like a duck....
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by exeter on August 26, 2003
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well i guess you're paranoid because i'm not a member of america's worst- excuse my opinion buti live in a Los Angeles ghetto neighborhood so i see alot. and my name really is shawn nee- not sure why that is unusual ANONYMOUS??? i'm actually not looking to catch a Gila as well. I would just like to see one for the first time in the wild rather than behind a glass window in a zoo.
i know exactly where you're stationed in 29 palms. i go to joshua tree alot but all i have caught are speckled rattlesnakes. and i have never seen anything else there.
well if anyone wants to email me with any information i would appreciate it or if you feel like getting together this weekend i'll be in the area...and don't worry too much because i'm not the law.
snee44@aol.com
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by Snakeman1982 on August 27, 2003
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I admire your wanting to see a wild Gila and not capture it for yourself or to sell to someone else. It is good that your "herps seen - life list" isn't solely consisting of animals you saw at zoos or from some person you bought the animals from. Wild animals in an ecological system make much better subjects for viewing than some specimen in a cage. In the words of National Geographic photographer Michael "Nick" Nichols - "If we have 10,000 tigers in captivity and none in the wild, then we have no tigers."
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by Naja_oxiana on August 27, 2003
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I would just like to point out that Heloderms are not native to this partof the desert. You'd need to head down towards Phoenix.
Cheers,
Roger
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Anonymous post on August 28, 2003
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go south east, the gila range hits the southern tip of NV and some maps show a small overlap into CA. If you are looking for directions to a good spot, I don't think anyone wants to give away good herp spots, like a good fishin' hole. If we told everyone exactly where to go, everyone would be out capturing and selling all the Gilas (they are worth quite a bit).
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by exeter on September 2, 2003
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Well after spending over 300.00 on gas in just 3 days- regular was actually $2.80 at a Mobil in Needles, CA. Next door at the Arco it was $2.49 a gallon. I did find some reptiles this past weekend. However, I did not see a Gila. Anyway I saw...
More speckled rattlers than I could keep track of. I just can't seem to avoid these animals. They really don't like to rattle either even when you're pretty much standing on top of them. Very docile though and easily handled.
Two mojave rattlers that I kept my distance from- very aggressive.
1 Coachwhip type snake that was long and slender but too fast to get catch or get a look at. It took off into the rocks as soon as I put my foot unexpectedly next to it.
3 California Kings which are the first ones I have seen since I moved to California
More lizards than I can count but I don't follow lizards so I wasn't sure about any of them.
A large swarm of bees living on a tree- the ominous bzzz made me feel like i was in some kind of killer bee horror flick. i quickly moved along.
And the most fascinating thing...
A large tornado/funnel cloud moving across the desert between Highway 95 and 29 Palms. The strange thing was that there wasn't a cloud in the sky. It was about a 100 feet tall or so, not sure how wide, and moving pretty fast across the land kicking up dust.
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