Museum herpetologist Jeff Beane named Tar Heel of the Week by N&O
For immediate release ‐ January 01, 1970
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BY MARTI MAGUIRE
Correspondent for the News & Observer
RALEIGH — Jeff Beane isn’t what you’d typically call a “people person.”
As manager of the N.C. Museum of Natural Science’s herpetology collection, he works with the thousands of dead snakes, salamanders, turtles and frogs that float in jars at a West Raleigh lab.
He spends much of his free time radio-tracking snakes or counting road kills. He’ll admit with deadpan humor that he finds most of the species he’s encountered in decades of exploration more interesting than humans.
Yet much of his tireless work, which has earned him several conservation awards, has a distinctly human element. Whether he’s writing magazine articles, speaking to museum groups, or patiently helping a caller identify a backyard visitor, Beane is continually educating people about the natural world he loves.
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