I will be doing work for Dr. Jack Sites this semester at BYU in Provo, Utah. Mostly in phylogenetics and DNA sequencing.

He is the herpetologist on campus, and he is also curator and collection manager of the herp collection of the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum here in Provo.

He is also in charge of georeferencing (using GIS and other tools) and documenting all of the known exact longitudes and latitudes of all populations of all the herpetofauna for the State of Utah.

I'll try to find out if he has covered the intermontana variety of emoryi yet.

Also, I would bet he has whatever permits required to collect them and study them.

He wants me to eventually rotate to doing field work for him somewhere over the course of the next 2 years. I'd sure like to study emoryi, even if I can't keep them. That would surely be cool.

In fact, if I got to see snakes as often I wanted to in THEIR own natural environment, I doubt I would keep that many in captivity, if at all.

In a way, I felt I have needed to "bring the nature to me" growing up. Hopefully life will allow me to bring myself to nature more often.



Dusty Rhoads
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