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TEXAS HORNED LIZARD REINTRODUCTION
BY NATHAN RAINS
AUGUST 22, 6 p.m.
Glen Rose Citizen’s Center
209 SW Barnard St., Glen Rose
Remember playing with Texas Horned Lizards growing up? Perhaps you
remember them as “Horny Toads” which is what we all called them.
Unfortunately, they are now in serious trouble and are no longer found in their
former habitats.
Nathan Rains, Wildlife Diversity Biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife, will give a presentation on the Texas Horned Lizard and the research and reintroduction efforts from the last 15 years. He’ll cover the path this research took into the genetics,
translocation (moving lizards from one area to another distant one) and the breeding programs throughout the state.
NATHAN RAINS: Nathan Rains is a Wildlife Diversity Biologist with Texas Parks
and Wildlife department. He received a B.S. from Texas A&M in 1994 in Wildlife
biology and an M.S. from LSU in 1994. He then worked for the Louisiana
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries for 2 years after grad school. He started
working with TPWD in 2000 and worked from 2000-2008 as a Wildlife biologist.
From 2008 to present he is working as a Wildlife Diversity Biologist
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