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Houston Chandler

@thesnakedude.bsky.social

Science Director for The Orianne Society. MS and PhD from the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation at Virginia Tech. #herpetology #conservation

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Houston Chandler @thesnakedude.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Relocated a large eastern diamondback today. I’m shocked the people who called were able to get it into a box.

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Houston Chandler @thesnakedude.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Spent the last couple of days helping with the annual indigo snake release in Alabama. This has been a really rewarding project to work on over the years. All snakes handled with proper permits.

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Houston Chandler @thesnakedude.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Two juvenile spotted turtles from one of our long-term monitoring sites. Always nice to see evidence of recruitment!

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Houston Chandler @thesnakedude.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Check out some of the cool research we are doing this year!

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Houston Chandler @thesnakedude.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Orianne crew past and present from the Annual Southeastern Partners for Amphibian and Reptile Conservation meeting. We gave 4 presentations about our work on indigo snakes, spotted turtles, and flatwoods salamanders.

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Houston Chandler @thesnakedude.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Our Spotted Turtle survey team is having a great start to the season. They caught seven turtles in Florida last week and are close to 30 this week in Georgia. Valuable mark-recapture data that will help us estimate population sizes.

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Houston Chandler @thesnakedude.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Big snapping turtle helped across the road today. Look at that face!

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Houston Chandler @thesnakedude.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Young planted longleaf stands often develop pretty poor conditions as the trees get bigger and shade out much of the understory vegetation. Thinning and planting native ground cover will ultimately be needed. Long process to restore an ecosystem.

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Houston Chandler @thesnakedude.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We recently worked with partners to develop methods for detecting indigo snake DNA in sand. This tool offers practitioners another method to survey for this hard to detect species. Will allow landowners, particularly DoD, to have more confidence in snake presence when planning operations. #eDNA

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 29/01/2025

Happy year of the snake! I would argue that the snakes of the United States are just as varied and pretty as our birds. A few years ago I made a poster to try and prove it. Drawing this took many months and a lot of research. You can get it here: topatoco.com/collections/...

A poster called Snakes of the United States & Canada, featuring every species of snake found in these two countries, all arranged by relative size and taxonomy, all smiling.

A close-up of the poster, with a variety of cute snakes, from watersnakes to hog-nosed snakes.

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John Vanek, PhD, AWB® @wild-ecology.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Good hashtag! A timber rattlesnake from a hilly central hardwood forest in southern Indiana. #snakes

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Houston Chandler @thesnakedude.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

An eastern copperhead from a wetland in southeast Georgia. #snakes

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Houston Chandler @thesnakedude.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I recently worked with collaborators from Virginia Tech to publish a paper outlining 10 principles from evolutionary ecology to guide the conservation of #reptiles and #amphibians. These principles are divided into landscape and life-history topics, relying heavily on existing ecological theory.

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New Published Research: 10 Principles for the Conservation of Herpetofauna

Houston Chandler discusses 10 guiding principles for the conservation of herpetofauna, based on evolutionary ecology.

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Houston Chandler @thesnakedude.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Going to give this a try. Posting mostly about conservation work with The Orianne Society. Lots of cool reptile and amphibian research. This Eastern Indigo Snake is one of the species that we work with a lot. Endemic to the southeastern US and the longest native #snake in the US.

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