{"id":23,"date":"2009-07-14T12:05:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/conservation\/2009\/07\/14\/help-report-these-critters\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T10:10:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T14:10:49","slug":"help-report-these-critters","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/conservation\/2009\/07\/14\/help-report-these-critters\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Report These Critters!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">The Division of Fisheries and Wildlife\u2019s Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program (NHESP) is asking interested conservationists for reports or sightings of certain specific reptiles and amphibians.&nbsp; The species of NHESP interest include: Smooth Greensnake, Eastern Hog-nosed Snake, Eastern Ribbonsnake, Eastern Musk Turtle, Spotted Turtle, and the Northern Leopard Frog. NHESP is particularly interested in sightings of the Eastern Hog-nosed Snake.&nbsp; These particular species are of interest for a variety of reasons: 1) the species is thought to be rare, declining or vulnerable, but there is insufficient information on the condition, number and size of populations to make a determination; 2) the species was removed from the official regulatory list, but the Program believes it still is in need of some conservation attention; 3) the species distribution and abundance are not well known. Herpetologists want to bring attention to and track reports of these reptiles and amphibian in order to determine whether any of the species listed are appropriate for proposal to the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act list. Information needed includes date of sighting, specific mapped location and a photo of the observed animal.&nbsp;&nbsp; Submit the form, map and photo(s) to: &nbsp;Data Manager, Natural Heritage &amp; Endangered Species Program, MassWildlife, 1 Rabbit Hill Road, Westborough, MA 01581. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See this short blurb about rare species we need help reporting and go to the documents section to see a flyer with photos on the topic. <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/conservation\/2009\/07\/14\/help-report-these-critters\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about Help Report These Critters!\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}