AHS Community Service


Above: Bob Reed, founding AHS President speaking at the
Forest Ecology Preserve in Auburn

Community Service

The AHS has a main goal of conservation education.  We feel one of the best ways of accomplishing this goal is to be involved in community activities and speaking at local schools.
In the summer of 1999, our founding President Bob Reed, gave a presentation on "Amazing Reptiles of Alabama" at the Forest Ecology Preserve in Auburn.  Bob was welcomed by over 25 Auburn area citizens with many children in attendance.


Above: Bob showing the kids the new reptile wall
click here for a closeup of the wall

The AHS has been involved in constructing a lizard habitat area in the Forest Ecology Preserve in Auburn.  The group met to carry rocks, tin and logs to create an area to view local lizard species like green anoles (Anolis carolinensis), fence lizards (Sceloporus undulatus), broad-headed skinks (Eumeces laticeps), ground skinks (Scincella lateralis), and southeastern five-lined skinks (Eumeces inexpectatus).  We have already found a redbelly snake (Storeria occipitomaculata) and an A. carolinensis on the wall.
 

Conservation Education

The AHS is involved in educating children of the community by visiting local schools and presenting our reptile and amphibian conservation goals.  We are currently working to establish a cooperative relationship with the Auburn Public School system and AHS.  For those interested in inviting AHS to give a conservation talk at their school, please contact us via email:  moosmpr@auburn.edu, phone (844-4850), or drop by Auburn University, Funchess Hall, room 305.

 Above: Auburn area children flippng logs
near the reptile wall to search for lizards