About Me
- Eric Hough
- I am a birder, naturalist, wildlife biologist, and now an interpretive ranger currently working for Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Department at the Hassayampa River Preserve near Wickenburg, Arizona. I spent the past several years following a career as a wildlife biologist and was a teaching assistant for a biology lab during grad school, with my education background consisting of an MS in Biology and BS in Forestry. I am an Arizona native and my past travels have taken me around most of the lower 48 United States, plus the state of Sonora in northwest Mexico. Before my current job I spent 1.5 years working as an environmental consultant in the Midwest based out of Kansas City (KS/MO), which gave me the opportunity to see a good portion of the Great Plains and Midwest region. My current travels are decidedly local, but I am hoping to travel abroad in the future when finances and work schedule allow. I am very content with my current career and happy to be doing a mix of environmental education and natural resource management at a wonderful desert oasis. I am looking forward to where this path takes me!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Ringtail
On November 3, 2011, I went along with Jesse Maestas, Sam Dorr, and David Green to go get a ringtail (Bassariscus astutus), a member of the family that contains raccoons and coatis, out of one of Jesse's traps. The ringtail had gotten into someone's basement in Kachina Village and Jesse put a trap in there the night before. We first got photos of it while it was in the trap in the basement and then we took it a few miles south to Pumphouse Wash where we released it. So freaking cute! It was a little upset in the truck ride down and let out some Howard Dean-like screams as we went down the bumpy road (we had a tarp over the cage while it sat in the back of the truck). When we released the ringtail, it first went up a small oak but then climbed down and sniffed around in the leaf litter while it watched us. Eventually it crawled below a large boulder. Here are pics of this awesome animal:
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