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Biomonitor Training - Flat-tailed Horned Lizard (FTHL)
In 2011, SWPARC agreed to take over biomonitor training for the Flat-tailed Horned Lizard (FTHL), Phrynosoma mcallii in coordination with CDF&G and AZG&F, and the FTHL Interagency Coordinating Committee (ICC).
Attention:
The Phrynosoma mcallii training for 2011 has been completed. The next training will take place in May of 2012, dates to be determined. Please check back for future training dates to be posted here.
For more details or questions, please contact Brian Aucone at BAucone@DenverZoo.org. If you or your colleagues want to add your name(s) to the list of future trainees, please send names, e-mails, address, business/agency and phone numbers of all potential trainees to Carol Flohr at CFlohr@DenverZoo.org. The Rangewide Management Strategy (RMS) requires that surveyors and biomonitors for the FTHL be approved by California Department of Fish and Game (CDF&G) and Arizona game and Fish (AZG&F).
The Flat-tailed Horned Lizard (FTHL), Phrynosoma mcallii, is a small horned lizard that inhabits the low Sonoran deserts of southeastern California, southwestern Arizona, and northwestern México. Much of the species’ historic habitat in the United States has been lost due to agricultural and residential development. A Conservation Agreement was signed by several federal and state agencies in 1997 to implement the FTHL Rangewide Management Strategy (RMS), and protect large areas of occupied habitat. The RMS is a long-term plan of action among signatory agencies to ensure persistence of the species. It continues to be implemented by the signatory agencies throughout the Management Areas, and other areas of flat-tailed horned lizard habitat. The range of desert lands occupied by FTHL are highly variable and consist of various substrates, rainfall amounts and seasons, vegetation communities, elevations, slopes, aspects, predators, and even span the fault between the North American and Pacific tectonic plates. They also occupy some of the lowest, hottest and driest desert regions of North America. Biomonitors and surveyors for FTHL should be aware of the dangers of working in such remote, and inhospitable locations.
Living with Venomous Reptiles
"Living with Venomous Reptiles in the Southwest" is a color brochure available as a PDF that can be downloaded or printed easily. It contains basic information about venomous reptiles in our region, including DO's and DON'Ts when it comes to bites.
Download LARGE HIGH-QUALITY PDF for printing a 11" x 17" brochure (50MB)
Links to collecting regulations in the Southwest
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Scientific |
Hobby |
Commercial |
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AZ: |
Apply for a license | Review guidelines (PDF file) | Unlawful |
CA: |
Apply for a special permit | Review regulations | Unlawful except for 3 species |
HI: |
Apply for a permit | Apply for a permit | Unlawful |
OK: |
Contact ODWC | Contact ODWC |
Oklahoma allows commercial harvest of most aquatic turtles, four species of rattlesnakes, mudpuppies, and the larval forms of most species of Ambystoma |
NV: |
Review regulations Apply for a license |
Review regulations and Species & Limits |
Review regulations Apply for a license |
NM: |
Apply for a permit | State residents are permitted to take most species (except Threatened and Endangered). Regulations and take limits on some species. Contact NMDG&F |
Allow commercial take with limits. |
TX: |
Apply for a permit | Apply for a permit | Apply for a permit |
CO: |
Apply for permit | Review regulations | Review regulations |
UT: |
Contact UDWR | Review regulations | Review regulations |