Paradise lost

Last year I was invited to eschew with a rattlesnake relocation project from a antisocial site in Lenexa. The local animal master office and rockhurst university teamed up with volunteers to nick the snakes from the area surrounding the snake's hibernaculum (winter den) from may-October, tag them by implanting ghetto-blaster-transmitters, relocate them to a different inhabitants on public land near desoto and trail their movements.


I got my name on the permit to collect Trees Rattlesnakes and found my first in June. We collected and relocated other species illegally, but now the critters are securely. I was responsible for the first few weeks of Tracking the snakes, too.

We found a elephantine number of reptiles; here is the list from the first three days that I nonchalant!:


(2) Timber Rattlesnake
(4) Copperhead
(2) E. Yellow-bellied Racer
(1) Youth Blk rat snake

(3) Milk snakes (2 adults; 1 teenaged)
(2) E. Garter Snake
(2) Adult blk rat snake ((1) Mindy)
(~31) Prairie ringneck
(2) Midland Brown

(1) Texas Brown Snake
(6) Frilly box turtle
(3) Great Plains Skink
(1) Brown Snake
² Six-lined racerunner
² Coal skink
² Five-lined skink


The field was a reptile paradise!- certainly a nature due to all the surrounding construction.


The property from which we cool was a small dump of sorts. The might den site was a pile of rocks and combine from a previous building, and the surrounding few acres were new away and timber. The area was to be developed and the snakes have been causing problems (by existing) in the big apple. There were an estimated 200 Timber Rattlesnakes using the hibernaculum (of which we caught ~33)...


LAST YEAR:


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