OFFICIAL PUBLICATION FOR THE BAY AREA AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE SOCIETY

BEHIND BAARSSeptember 2013

Komodo Dragon at the San Francisco Zoo ©Pete Marshall

General Meeting

Friday, September 27 @ 8:00 p.m.(doors open 7:30 p.m.)

Cubberley Community Center, Room M-2 Music Room, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto

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Contents

President’sReport - 2

Komodo Dragonsat SF Zoo - 3

BAARS History- 4

Events &Activities - 8

Birthday - 9

Board Notes - 9

Treasurer’sReport - 10

Editor’s Shelf - 11

Board Members& Contacts -12

Run for a BoardOffice! - 13

MembershipForm - 14

Older Newsletters

President’s Report

Hello BAARS Members and Supporters,

Last month, August, was BAARS’ annual Turtle and Tortoise Night! For our keynotespeaker we had James Liu, the former collections manager at the BehlerChelonian Conservation Center and long-term BAARS supporter. I wanted to givea shout to all of the folks who helped pull this event together, and especiallythank Tony and Rhonda for organizing the raffle and raffle prizes.

For September, BAARS will be having a social/bring-your-favorite pet night, andalso will have a raffle and auction of donated items. Oh, by the way, please bringsome stuff for BAARS to auction off (but please, no dirty or broken aquariums).This will be a social evening; so many times with a guest speaker, it seems likethere’s not enough time just to socialize. We will also feature mini-presentations,to give those who brought interesting reptiles a chance to inform us about theiranimals.

In October, we’ll be hearing from Gerold Merker, who, with his wife Cindy, runsMerker Reptiles, which is a successfully breeding facility and produces top-notchsnakes! Gerold is extremely knowledgeable about native herps, kingsnakes, rosyboas, and many others species, and we’re proud to have him as a speaker! Hemakes multiple trips to Texas and to the desert every year, and spendsconsiderable time field herping, in addition to breeding several species ofsnakes.

Finally, BAARS is accepting officer nominations!! Remember, you wouldn’t haveBAARS if not for the hard work of our officers and board! Frankly, we need newhelp on the board, and have a lot of new stuff planned. We have several officesavailable, so if you are interested, please attend a general meeting to getnominated, then attend the Holiday Party, when we hold elections. Pleaseconsider getting more involved and running for an office!

Also, check out www.cafepress.com/baars; there’s a lot of cool BAARS stuff thatyou can order, and BAARS gets a 20% cut. We’re also getting very close to gettingour non-profit status reinstated; once we get that, we’ll have a big fundraiser withtax-deductible donations!

Please bring a friend to a BAARS meeting! Hope to see you in

September!

Sincerely,

Scott Alexander, BAARS Interim President, 2013

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Komodo Dragons at the SF Zoo

by Pete Marshall

I went to see the new Komodo dragon at the San Francisco Zoo. Not knowing what it was going to be like, it

was interesting to see it. They put it in a room just for the lizard, which is really nice; it’s kind of a two-room

set up.

When you first get to the display, you see the sign for the new dragon, and they put a life-size model of an

adult dragon outside. Next, you see the entrance of the display for the real deal.

You open the door, and you’re in an open room with a big glass display window in front of you. And there it

is, the first Komodo dragon in the Bay Area. It’s young, about 3’ long, give or take a few inches, so it has a

long way to go.

The cage is as natural as it can be, with water, dirt, and plants, and it has lots of room for the lizard to grow.

It made me wonder how they work with it. Do they handle it much? Or at all? Or do they train it just enough

to move it for cage cleaning and checkups? I don’t know, but it is nice to have a real dragon here in the bay

area. So, when you can make a trip to the SF zoo and see it for yourself, you’ll be glad you did.

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History of BAARS

by Pete Marshall

So, I hear BAARS is turning 30 years old. I find that very exciting. So with that news I had to go check my

records of when I became a member -- in Aug 1989. I’m happy to see that the club is still going strong and

very active in the community.

I became a member of BAARS because I could meet like-minded people like myself. Growing up, I have

always liked reptiles, but never had the chance to share that interest with other people.

At the time, BAARS used to meet in Hayward, which is close to me; but no matter, I would have gone

anywhere to go to a meeting. Not knowing what it was going to be like, I was excited to find out and see

what BAARS was all about.

Back then, the president was Wanda Olsen. The meetings went very much like they do today. In the first

meeting, they talked about reptiles, and a few of them were there, and that time I think a few monitors as I

recall.

So, this was the place for me. I signed up and knew I had to get as much out of this club as I could. And even

back then, they talked a lot about the need for people to get involved with the club, meaning, get on the

board, or get involved with doing the shows and other programs that we do.

If you do nothing, then you will get nothing back. Being involved is the best way to meet people and the

best way to learn from them. And when you have a question about an animal, you have someone to call and

ask. So there is a lot to be gained by getting involved.

By being a member of the club for so long and being involved, I have seen a lot of changes in the club, and

seen a lot of people come and go. There have been a few times when it looked as if BAARS would just run

out of members and just stop being a club.

I, for one, am glad that did not happen. The reason this did not happen is because we got new people to

come in with new ideas, and that has helped the club grow and keep going,

Over the past years, I’ve met a lot of people and learned a lot from them. All have been good friends and

added so much to my life. I have been amazed at all the different animals people will keep, and how they

keep them.

If you ever get the chance to go visit a member’s collection, I would not pass that up. It is a learning

experience, and the information you gain from that, you can bring back to your own collection.

Over the years, the club has seen a lot of very interesting people. When I started, Wanda Olsen was the

president. Her interest was lizards. She loved them more than anything. Her favorite was the Savannah

Monitor. She had one named Butch. He never really had a cage. I think at one point, he lived in a closet, but

for the most part, Butch just lived in the house like the other members of the family.

He had a hot spot where he could keep warm, but that was about it for the most part. There was a lot to be

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learned from Wanda, the lizard lady. Wanda was the first person to start a monitor lizard rescue that I know

of back then.

Nanci Burtz was the next BAARS president. She was a great person and a good friend, which she is still

today. In her household are a half-dozen giant tortoises that live in the backyard. They have a beautiful

setup -- it’s really something to see. And the size of the tortoises is the amazing thing. If you get a chance to

go to Gus’ hatch day party, go! You will not be disappointed.

Some other major players in the club were Tom and Joyce Coffland. These two people were real go-getters.

They did almost everything for BAARS, from keeping track of members to writing the newsletter. They also

were at every show BAARS did. Their interest was boa constrictors and ball pythons. At the time, they had

the biggest boa I had ever seen. They did a bit of breeding, too, and they got some very interesting color

patterns in the process.

Tom did a presentation on the many sub-species of Boa constrictor. I was very surprised by the many

different species. His enthusiasm for his boas and also for BAARS came through in his presentation. Once

you met Tom, he was not the kind of person you could easily forget.

Charlie Mosher was a major player as well. He was on the board and did a lot for BAARS. His interest was

also boa constrictors and ball pythons. At the time, Charlie had about three snakes, and he bred his own

rats, something which I thought was the coolest thing. I wish I could have done that, but I didn’t have the

room or the place to set that up.

He had a good deal going. When he got too many rats for his snakes to eat, he would sell off the rest, and

with that money, he would buy food for the rats. So, his snakes were eating for free, and he used others to

help support his rats by selling off the extras. I was a big supporter of Charlie’s rats.

He was a very eccentric character. His boa was the only boa I have even met that, as far as Charlie was

concerned, didn’t like perfume; and he would tell people. I thought that was too funny. Me, I don’t really

think a boa would care too much about it; I’ve never seen any facts on that.

But all that was part of Charlie’s charm. He was a great and funny guy to have around. He passed away many

years ago, and he was the only BAARS member to have a service. We did a meeting in his honor, and we all

told stories of Charlie. It was a very moving night. A lot of people came out, even some that were not

members any more, and from as far away as Oakland. He was, and still is. missed by the people that knew

him. I just saw in the newsletter that one of Charlie’s boas is still with us and doing well. He would be so

proud of that snake, and it looks good that someone is taking very good care of that old lady.

Up next was another couple, John and Linda Williams. They were good people, and from the start, they got

involved. John was a past president and Linda was newsletter editor. Their background was in marketing

and publishing at the time. We had a good newsletter-- one of the best out there as far as we could tell --

and we had a lot of people tell us it was good as well, so I’m not just saying that.

But John and Linda looked at it, and they knew it could be so much better. So they got on the board and

started making changes-- big changes. The first thing they did was to give the newsletter a complete

makeover. So we went from a good looking newsletter to an outstanding newsletter. It was exciting to get

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the new newsletter. I looked forward to getting it in the mail, just to see what was in it. It really was

beautiful, easy it read, complete with pictures--just a much better club newsletter. Other clubs wanted to

model their newsletter after ours, it was so well done.

The newsletter that the Williams made lasted a few years, until it went through another rebirth into the

newsletter which you see today; even the best can be improved on.

John Williams was into kingsnakes and rat snakes. He collected every king and rat snake he could find.

Seeing his collection was very impressive, and the way he had it set up was really nice as well.

Another big thing John did for BAARS was to create the very first BAARS Bazaars, much like the reptile

shows you see today. Back in the day, BAARS had our own. We used it as our major fundraiser for the club.

The first one was held at the Cubberley Community Center, in the fenced-in area next to room H1. It was

kind of small to start, but we had some vendors from the area, and we had a good number of people come,

and the club did quite well the first time out. This was one of the first of its kind in the area.

In the end, it was a big hit, and people wanted to do it again. If I recall, John did one more Bazaar before his

life changed, and he moved on. After that, I took over and put the third one together. We used the large

room at Cubberley where the temporary Mitchell Park library is today.

The Bazaar was a lot of work and fun to put on, but after the third one we did, the idea caught on, and major

reptile shows started popping up, and BAARS shut down the Bazaar; but it was good fun while it lasted.

Also, the cost of renting the room took a big chunk of what money the club made; so that was another

reason why we stopped doing the Bazaar.

In the late 1990’s, I stepped down from being on the board. I had done it for a long time and felt I had done

all I could do. I got Leslie Braley to step in and take over as President. This was a good fit at the time. She

was new to the job and had different ideas, which is something I felt the club needed then.

One thing we used to do back then which was fun to do and reptile related, was to canoe down the Russian

river in Healdsburg and count western pond turtles. In the river, my best count was 50 turtles. We did this

for a few years, and each time we did this, we got a different count on the turtles. When we started doing

this, it was just BAARS members, but it was Leslie’s idea to get involved with North Bay Herp Society. And

one of the first outings we did with them was the river trip. I felt this was a great idea, and a good way for

the two clubs to start to get to know each other, and we started doing joint events with North Bay Herp

Society.

As we started working with them more, it gave us a much larger base to network with when it came to

rescue animals. On both ends, it gave us more people to work with placement of animals. And it gave us

more people to help house animals when needed. Getting to know other clubs in the area was one of the

best things to happen to the club.

One of the best ideas Leslie had was to work a joint Reptile Show, something both clubs could benefit from.

As I recall, I know there was a lot of talk about it, but I am not too sure if this event really happened. But

with that being said, we have had some shows with North Bay, and that’s been a good thing for us to do.

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BAARS has been around a long time now, and I can recall a time there when some people were asking if the

club would last, or would it just fade away. This is a question that’s come from people that have done just

that, fade away from the club and reptiles.

I have always known that it would never die. People are not going to let that happen. When I started,

BAARS was about getting people together that loved reptiles, so they can meet other people that love

reptiles. That was great. I met a lot of good people, most of whom I still know today.

Also, when I started, there wasn’t a lot of reptile rescue going on; it was, but not like it is today. Then, for

the most part, it consists of getting a reptile from someone in the club that didn’t want it any more.

But today, BAARS has grown and changed a lot over the years. Today, reptiles are a big interest that has

grown so much, and with that interest, reptile rescue has also grown a lot. There are a lot of people out

there rescuing reptiles, helping the animals in need.

It has been great to see how reptiles have grown over the past 20 years. And BAARS has been at the

forefront of it all here in the Bay Area. It has been a great ride. I have learned a lot, and I learn something

new all the time. I’ve met a lot of good people, and I’ve seen people come and people go.

Over the years, we could never figure why people leave the club, but I guess that’s just the way it is.

With that being said, I’m happy to say that BAARS is here to stay. What will the next 20 years be like? I don’t

know, but I’m looking forward to finding out.

In the NewsSubmitted by Gisele

A group of hero firefighters did what firefighters do and improvised to save the life of a bearded dragonlizard, who was rescued from his burning container. Thorn was given oxygen using a mask designed totreat humans, following the incident in its basement home in Pedmore Road, Lye, West Midlands.Fire crews responded after a bulb in the two-year-old lizard’s vivarium enclosure overheated and causeda fire that spread throughout. Lucy Evans, a firefighter who attended the scene, said: ‘Thorn wasdesperate for air and at first we thought it was dead. ‘But then Adrian touched its tail and it jumped.‘We got Thorn out of there – we didn’t discuss giving the kiss of life but our colleagues gave the animaloxygen.’ Two firefighters had to enter the building that was engulfed in smoke to save the lizard, who isnow recovering. There were no reports of human casualties. Source: Metro UK

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND ACTIVITIESContact Joanne Petersen, joanne.hiratsuka@gmail.com, if you'd like to help BAARS participate in theseshows; we need more volunteers to bring their herps! More details are on our BAARS.org website underEvents & Shows & Meetings.

September 2013

September 277:30 p.m.

BAARS General Club Meeting >>Room M-2 Music Room<<

Social, bring your pet night. Auction and Raffle. Bring gently used, fully functionaland unbroken items for the auction.

October 2013

October 47 p.m.

BAARS Board MeetingAt Aleks Haecky’s home. Contact vhaecky@gmail.com for directions.

October 611 a.m - 4 p.m.

YSI Wildlife Festival at Alum Rock ParkYSI Nature Center, 16260 Penitencia Creek Road, San Jose.Hold a snake, touch a toad, and meet hawks, owls and other animals! Join us at theYouth Science Institute’s Wildlife Festival. Food and fun throughout the day.Families can participate in wildlife programs, hands-on science activities and crafts.BAARS will be displaying our herps.

October 258 p.m.

BAARS General Club Meeting >>Room M-2 Music Room<<

Speaker: Gerold MerkerHalloween Party! Dress yourself up as a herptile, dress your herptile as a ???

October 2610 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Audubon Wildlife Education DayBlackberry Farm, 21979 San Fernando Avenue, Cupertino.Wildlife Education Day has become one of the premier festivals in the Bay Areawhere hundreds of families come together to celebrate and learn about birds,nature, ecology, and wildlife. Over a dozen nature-related organizations willprovide live animal demonstrations, educational presentations, free hands-onactivities, early morning bird walk, and more. BAARS will show our herps!

November/December 2013

November 2-3 Tracy Reptile ExpoThis is a new show -- BAARS has been given a free table for both Saturday 11/2 andSunday 11/3. BAARS will be there at least one day; will firm up date soon. Therewill be vendors with discounts on supplies and breeders.

December 66 p.m. - 10 p.m.

BAARS Holiday Party, Potluck, and Board Officer Elections!Friday, December 6th at the Los Altos Library => Note new location!

Doors open for BAARS at 6:00 PM.

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BAARS Birthday Party at Overfelt Gardens

by Tania Tengan

The BAARS Birthday Celebration was a small and festive gathering. Tony, Rhonda, Scott A., Aleks, Jim,

Michael, Austin, Aria and I. The food was good. The dessert was reptifabulously baked and decorated by

Rhonda with her usual flair for the creepy crawlies!!! The location was beautiful. There were lots of ducks

and geese. We even watched some red-eared sliders basking in the sun. It was very relaxing and so lovely

to hang out and chat!

BAARS Board Report

Highlights from September 6, 2013 Board Meeting

In response to BAARS Member Feedback, our social media policy has beenupdated AGAIN as follows and posted:

● Allowed: Social posts, FREE adoptions/rescue offers, free services.● You must be a MEMBER to SELL merchandise, animals, or services.● Adoptions fees are considered selling.● Visit http://www.baars.org if you would like to join BAARS.● Absolutely no soliciting donations or asking for money.● No spamming. Consider once a month a guideline for re-running the same ad.● All posts need to be kept on the topic of ectothermic animals and pets.● Violating posts will be removed.● Violators will be reminded of our policy.● Repeat or serious violators will be banned.

Next Board Meeting: Friday, October 4, at 7 pm at Aleks Haecky’s house in Sunnyvale. Contact Aleks atvhaecky@gmail.com, if you need directions.

Reminder: Upcoming Meeting Time Changes for 2014

As a result of our survey, the board decided to keep the meeting day and location the same, but move to an

earlier time starting in January of 2014 (if we can get our room rental times adjusted): Doors open 7 p.m. /

President starts meeting at 7:15 p.m. / 7:45 Speaker starts / Social time ~ 9 - 10 pm. We believe this will

make it easier for families to attend and enjoy our speakers, and the social time at the end allows for

flexible planning.

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Treasurer’s Reportby Scott Petersen

This report covers the club’s fiscal activities for August 2013.

During the month of August, the club experienced the largest income of any month this year. Surprisingly,

this was achieved without any new or renewed memberships, typically our biggest source of income. It all

came from donations. To that end, the club would like to thank all of you who contributed, and those of you

who worked so hard to achieve these donated funds.

The Santa Clara County fair proved to be a very profitable experience (both from a fiscal and an enjoyment

perspective), and many thanks go out to Gil & Dorothy of the Silicon Valley Turtle and Tortoise Club

(http://www.tortoise.org/siliconvalley/) who shared their large space with BAARS; Rhonda, whose spinning

wheel game brought both fun & prizes to the kids and funds for BAARS; and those members who worked

the show, sharing their reptiles, amphibians, knowledge and love of these creatures with the hundreds of

people who visited our joint booths each day. Many BAARS volunteers worked all 4 days. The club is

definitely planning on attending this event again next year, if invited.

The other primary donations came through the efforts of Tania, Austin, & Aria with the adoptions program,

the general meeting raffle run by Rhonda, and member donations during the general meetings for food

and drinks. Again, a big thank you to all those members who contributed.

As a result of August’s income, and despite my previous fiscal concerns, the club now stands at only -$11.15

below its financial starting point at the beginning of the year. Total assets for the club were up to $3,685.67

as of the end of August.

Expenses for the month included the usual general meeting room rental cost and the August hardcopy

newsletter printing and postage costs. As was mentioned in the August newsletter, the August general

meeting speaker fee was deducted in July.

(Note: a discrepancy in last month’s June & July numbers was pointed out and corrected in this month’s

numbers)

Posting Date: ___YTD__ 6/31/2013 7/30/2013 8/31/2013

Expenses $1763.68 $155.00 $229.00 $ 85.04

Income: $1752.53 $85.00 $186.00 $413.25

Cash flow: -$11.15 -$70.00 -$42.47 $328.21

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Editor’s Shelf

Submit Photos, Notes, and Articles!Do you have an update on BAARS or herp-related activities? Did you attend a show and enjoy it? Read acool book, article, or website? Write a herp-related paper, report, short-story, or essay? Take picturesthat you would like to share? Adopt or purchase a new pet, have a great experience with a veterinarianor a store? Go on a field trip or hike? Read a book on herps? Draw a comic or a picture? Have successbreeding your animals? Figure out how to get an animal to eat? Build a cage? Create a setup? Rearrangeyour pond? Solve a setup problem? Submit it to behindBAARS@gmail.com. Your submission does nothave to be perfect! Please do not submit materials for which you do not have the copyright orpermissions.

BAARS Membership Discounts (show membership card)

● East Bay Vivarium, Berkeley - 10%● Dr. R. Singh, Veterinarian, Sunnyvale - 10%

BAARS T-Shirts and Goodies @ http://www.cafepress.com/baars

Newsletter Exchange - More News for YOU!

BAARS exchanges Newsletters with a number of other clubs. Check out the folder of recent newslettersat the General Meeting, or contact the Newsletter Editor.

Advertising in Behind BAARS:

Advertising PoliciesBAARS assumes NO RESPONSIBILITY regarding the health or legality of any animal, or thequality or legality of any product or service advertised in the BAARS Newsletter. Any ad may be rejected at thediscretion of the Newsletter Editor; complimentary advertisements are run as space permits.

Classified AdsAll BAARS members in good standing are allowed one classified ad, run free of charge as space permits. Ads may berun three (3) consecutive months, after which time they may be resubmitted. Advertisements must be submittedelectronically to behindBAARS@gmail.com.

Non-members: send payments by check (payable to: Bay Area Amphibian and Reptile Society) to: BAARS, ℅ Palo AltoJunior Museum, 1451 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94301. Once payment has been processed, the ad will beposted.

Advertising CostsBusiness card sized ad $5/month or $40/year1/4 Page $10/month or $80/year1/2 Page $20/month or $160/year

To advertise on our website, please, contact behindBAARS@gmail.com.

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BAARS 2013 Board Members

ELECTED OFFICERSPresident - Vacant

Immediate Past and InterimPresident -Scott Alexander408-823-3675alexander_scott@yahoo.com

Vice President-Eric Koessel510-847-4392erickoessel@yahoo.com

Membership Secretary-Kyna Hendra408-204-5131Membership.baars@gmail.com

Recording Secretary-Vacant

Treasurer-Scott Petersenscottepetersen@gmail.com

MEMBERS-AT-LARGEGilbert Castro408-582-4247Tortoise.whisperer@yahoo.com

Jim Goehring408-252-0338jimathome@sbcglobal.net

Tania Tengan 408-499-5867 tmtengan@att.net

Aria Pleban

Diana H.

Submitted by Tony Velez; source unknown

APPOINTED OFFICERSNewsletter Editor & Publisher -Aleks Haeckyvhaecky@gmail.com

Show Coordinator-Joanne Petersenjoanne.hiratsuka@gmail.com

Publicity Director- Vacant

Webmaster-Wolfgang Keil

Adoptions Coordinator-Austin Plebanbaars.adoptions@gmail.com

NEWSLETTER DUE DATES

October newsletter submission deadline:October 11, 2013 (second Friday)

November/December newsletter submission deadline:November 8, 2013 (second Friday)

Thank you Joanne Petersen for proofreading.

Send all submissions to:behindBAARS@gmail.com

Accepted Content:We love herp-related original articles, trip and show reports,stories about your animals, and original photographs anddrawings. You retain all rights but grant us permission to use,edit, and publish in the newsletter and on our website withattribution.

Accepted Formats:The newsletter editor can open almost anything. Plain text in anemail is great. Attach images to email or provide URL.

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Help BAARS Be Great! - Run for Office!by Aleks Haecky, Newsletter Editor

Did you read Pete Marshall’s History of BAARS article? The main message of Pete’s article to me

is: BAARS Members are the heart of the club. The club is and will be what we make of it. What

you put in, is what you get out of it.

The BAARS Board consists of BAARS members who volunteer their time and energy to take care of

day-to-day business, such as financials, room rentals, membership services, show and event

coordination, and keeping members informed via a website and newsletter. Board members dedicate

time to make BAARS interesting and beneficial to its members by facilitating adoptions, arranging for

interesting speakers, setting up events and parties, and negotiating discounts. To help the club grow,

officers promote the club. And to keep us all honest, official meetings and decisions made are

recorded for future reference.

Some board members have been serving for many years -- even a decade! This shows deep

commitment and dedication. And also a bit of sacrifice -- of energy and time. To be totally frank,

some board members would love to take a break, to give new, fresh officers a chance to bring in their

ideas, to wreath change to move BAARS forward, maybe into a new direction altogether - but let’s

stick with herptiles, since our love of reptiles and other critters is ultimately what brings us together.

You are qualified! If you just want to try out steering the ship, run for Member-at-Large.

Members-at-Large can take on specific tasks, projects, or errands (such as organizing a trip, asking a

shop for donations, design a flyer, bring treats to a meeting). If you want to hone your web skills, why

not give the BAARS website a makeover? You can do this as Webmaster, or as a Member-at-Large

together with the webmaster. Do you have marketing skills or ideas? Would you like to promote

BAARS to increase our membership and get more sponsors? Then become our Publicity Chair. Are you

good at taking notes, or do you just want to practice your note-taking? To keep BAARS honest, we

need a Recording Secretary for our board meetings; this job can also be shared among two people.

Are you a social person? Would you like to run our Facbook Page? Get us running on G+? Tweet about

BAARS? Maybe you have an artistic inclination and would like to design artwork for our Cafepress

store. Heck, maybe you would like to get experience running an online store?

Whether as a Member-at-Large or as an officer with specific duties, by joining the board you can

be actively involved in making the BAARS the club you want it to be!

To nominate yourself, or nominate someone for office, speak to a board member at a meeting, or

email any of the board members, or just send a note to beindbaars@gmail.com with your name and

the office you are interested in. Offices are listed on the previous page. Then come to our Holiday

Party and participate in elections!

As Scott loves to say: Let’s Build Up BAARS!

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Membership Application

__New Membership __ Renewal Membership __Change of Address

Individual/Family: __1 Year ($25) __2 Years ($50) __ 3 Years ($75) __4 Years ($100)

Special: __Sustaining ($35) __Contributing ($50) __Patron ($100) __ Institutional ($20)

__Check to have your special gift mentioned in the newsletter

NAME:________________________________________________________________

EMAIL: ______________________________________________________________

Address:_______________________________________________________________

City/State/Zip:___________________________________________________________

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What reptiles/amphibians do you own?__________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

What other herps do you have experience with?____________________________________

How did you learn about BAARS:_______________________________________________

Are you interested in:

__Learning about something in particular

__ Field herping

__Photography

__Participating in shows

__Participating in educational events

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