Mark Bara: Snake Identification
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Horry County Museum 805 Main Street , Conway, South Carolina 29526
The Horry County Museum presents a program on snake identification by Mark Bara on Saturday, June 8, at 1 p.m. Bara will discuss the different snakes found in South Carolina and how to identify them.
Bara is a professionally trained wildlife biologist with Wildlife Society certification. He has a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from Cornell University, and after serving three-and-a-half years of shipboard duty as a USCG officer, he used his GI Bill benefits to obtain a Master’s degree in Wildlife Science at the University of Georgia.
He was employed for 33 years by SCDNR, retiring as a regional coordinator for a nine county area in the Pee Dee region. He has worked with hundreds of landowners and hunting clubs, assisting them with habitat improvement and harvest strategies. Among numerous other duties, he was responsible for programs on several public wildlife management areas and heritage preserves, wild turkey restoration and assisting farmers with USDA cost share programs for soil conservation and wildlife habitat improvements. During the early to mid-1970s, he also conducted alligator research during which time he captured 1,000 alligators.
The program is free to the public and will be held in the Museum’s McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street in Conway. For more information, call (843) 915-5320 or email hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov.
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