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What are y'all going to do this summer? I am going to make this the best desert summer I have ever had. I bought a new camcorder and hope to post much better videos than the previous ones I have put on Youtube. Last year I took four weekend journeys to a region in Nevada just below the Oregon border...

I have to wonder how long it is going to take before us humans begin to realize that we are going to have to reduce our numbers. The inborn failure of the capitalist system is that the rich have a vested interest in infinitely expanding our numbers for their benefit. There are over six billion peopl...

Tom, True to the trade, Bill Haast has been bitten many times! I believe his worst bite was prior to the self immunization program that he invented, and it was an old world Elapid of some sort. If I remember correctly, his first bite was from a timber rattler when he was a teenager. I remember read...

Has it been established that hog noses are mildly venomous? As for coral snakes, this is the first time I have ever seen them referred to as a non-life-threatening species. I have seen people free-handle them repeatedly without taking any precautions against being bitten and wondered what the hell w...

Thanks. I will be ordering all of those titles in time.

I am interested in books about the desert by folks who write in the style of Abbey, Eiseley and Fletcher. Especially if they have a bent towards herpetology. Anyone have any suggested reading?

My question is, what rattler is that? It looks like a mix between a Mojave, a Red Diamond and a Western Diamondback all in one snake.

One of my favorite places, on the edge of the Amargosa Desert.

I like that. Hogna Christensenses, commonly known as Captain Wayne's wolf spider.

When I went back inside my room for the night, I literally tore the place apart to make sure none of those babies were inside with me. Illogical as it may be, I have a rather nasty case of arachnophobia.