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    The 2019 Minnesota Renaissance Festival is held weekends August 17th through September 29th, including September 2nd – Labor Day and September 22nd – Festival Friday.

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    Education Programs

    Our education programs include Hands-on events like the Renaissance Festival, local fairs, schools, nature centers, zoos, and a whole lot more!

May ’22 Speaker: Erica Hoaglund – The Endangered Blanchard’s Cricket Frog

May ’22 Speaker: Erica Hoaglund – The Endangered Blanchard’s Cricket Frog

July 2, 2022 by Laura • Speakers •

Erica Hoaglund has worked for over 15 years with herps and other animals through the Nongame Wildlife Program of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. She covers Region 3/Central, which includes about 26 counties.               On May 6th, she spoke to the MHS about a new joint project with […]

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April ’22 Speaker: Gaea Crozier – Wood Turtle Research in Northeastern Minnesota

April ’22 Speaker: Gaea Crozier – Wood Turtle Research in Northeastern Minnesota

June 15, 2022 by Laura • Speakers •

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October ’17 Speaker: Beth Girard; Lizards: What They Do and How They Do It!

October ’17 Speaker: Beth Girard; Lizards: What They Do and How They Do It!

September 13, 2017 by Chris Rueber • Speakers •

Beth has been an active member of the Minnesota Herpetological Society since 1999. This year, she served as the 2017 State Fair Coordinator and continues her role as the current Adoption Chair.  She joined MHS with her four children when we moved to the Twin Cities from Orlando, Florida.  It was her love of everything […]

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March ’17 Speaker: Aquatic Newt Husbandry; Wild Salamander Threats

March ’17 Speaker: Aquatic Newt Husbandry; Wild Salamander Threats

February 7, 2017 by Chris Rueber • Speakers •

Bradley Wilson has been fascinated by the oft-overlooked newt since he first heard of such a creature in a Monty Python movie his father showed him in the early 1980’s.  His parents home quickly became filled with aquariums and terrariums.  Freshwater community tanks, oddballs such as the now outlawed fish Snakeheads, lungfish, freshwater toadfish, lionfish […]

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February ’17 Speaker: Cris Hagen from the Turtle Survival Alliance

January 30, 2017 by Chris Rueber • Uncategorized •

In 2010 Cris Hagen became the first Director of Animal Management for the Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) and is responsible for the strategic development and management oversight of captive turtle assurance colonies throughout the U.S.A. to support the conservation mission of the TSA. He is based at the TSA’s Turtle Survival Center (TSC), which opened […]

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2017 Midwest Symposium

January 21, 2017 by Chris Rueber • Uncategorized •

Where? Details are forthcoming! Who should attend? EVERYONE! This is an annual weekend event for anyone interested in amphibians and reptiles. The main focus of every symposium is education, providing a wide array of speakers and topics. It is a chance for herpers to mingle in a relaxed social atmosphere, visit with old friends, make […]

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October ’16 Talk: The Great Herp Extinction: What We Know (And What We Can Do) About the World’s Vanishing Herps

September 13, 2016 by Brad Stine • Speakers •

Jeremy Hance is a freelance environmental journalist. Currently he is a senior correspondent with Monagabay and writes a blog on the Guardian entitled Radical Conservation. He has been covering wildlife conservation issues, including the rising tide of mass extinction, since 2007. In pursuit of his stories, Jeremy has traveled to nearly thirty countries across five […]

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September ’16 Speaker – Richard Glor

August 25, 2016 by Brad Stine • Speakers •

Speaker – Dr. Richard Glor Bio: Rich Glor is a lifelong helper who developed his passion for reptiles and amphibians as a teenage volunteer at the Buffalo Zoo and later as a member of the Cornell University Herpetological Society. He earned his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Washington University in St. Louis through […]

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August ’16 Talk: Herpetological Conservation International’s Project Pondo

July 20, 2016 by Brad Stine • Speakers •

Chip Cochran of Herpetological Conservation International Bio: Chip Cochran is a PhD candidate in Dr. William K. Hayes lab at Loma Linda University where he is studying morphological, dietary, and venom composition differences among populations of southwestern speckled rattlesnakes (Crotalus pyrrhus). He received his BS from The University of Arizona in 2006 where he majored […]

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