Shasta County Field Herpetological Resource Site

Purpose

• Provide accurate detailed information with high resolution photos of the Reptiles and Amphibians that can be found in the wild in Shasta County. Species accounts is still a work in progress, see Oregon Ensatina for an example.
• Provide identification keys that can be used to distinguish similar species from each other in the field. This is mostly done, but some photos are lacking.
• Keep a running database of field reports with voucher photographs documenting what hobbyists have found within Shasta County.
• Promotion of habitat and ecological conservation.
• Educational non collection small group field herping expeditions in Shasta County. This is currently being facilitated through Northern California Outdoor Adventurers, a Shasta County meetup.com group.
• NOTE: I am currently updating code to handle all date/time measurements internally in POSIX Time. This should have no impact on display of records or addition of records long term, but there might be a little quirkiness in display between now and the time I am finished, hopefully by the beginning of next month.

We currently have 249 database records covering 18 species with 505 images, and we are growing.

Additionally, we have 2262 records from various vertebrate museums used to help generate range maps and typical elevation for species in Shasta County.

Please note that this is not a government site and is not associated with Shasta County Government.