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Re: Snake!
« Reply #25 on: August 10, 2015, 01:16:24 PM »
Won't kill a snake just because it is a snake.  Venomous snakes around the house will get hosed but in a way that it just might get breaded, fried and eaten.
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Re: Re: Snake!
« Reply #26 on: August 10, 2015, 01:33:04 PM »
Quote from: roo_ster on August 10, 2015, 11:35:49 AM
Not likely to go on the list.  Too many of them and they adapt just fine. 

Copperhead, Prairie Rattlesnake and Massasauga Rattlesnakes are endangered species of venomous snakes in Iowa. This a state listing.

Feds have New Mexico Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake listed as the only a endangered venomous snake species.
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Re: Re: Re: Snake!
« Reply #27 on: August 10, 2015, 03:29:53 PM »
Quote from: charby on August 10, 2015, 01:33:04 PM
Copperhead, Prairie Rattlesnake and Massasauga Rattlesnakes are endangered species of venomous snakes in Iowa. This a state listing.

Feds have New Mexico Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake listed as the only a endangered venomous snake species.
Meh no great loss for iowa.  Plenty of nonvenomous snakes in iowa to pick up the slack.
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Re: Re: Re: Snake!
« Reply #28 on: August 10, 2015, 03:40:58 PM »
Quote from: roo_ster on August 10, 2015, 03:29:53 PM
Meh no great loss for iowa.  Plenty of nonvenomous snakes in iowa to pick up the slack.

Actually our herps numbers overall have dropped drastically in the last 20 years in Iowa. When species numbers start to drop their is something environmentally wrong and could impact the health of the human populations.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Snake!
« Reply #29 on: August 10, 2015, 06:46:12 PM »
Quote from: charby on August 10, 2015, 03:40:58 PM
Actually our herps numbers overall have dropped drastically in the last 20 years in Iowa. When species numbers start to drop their is something environmentally wrong and could impact the health of the human populations.
Think it might be the great shift to corn to the exclusion of all else on many farms?  IOW dropping the cattle and hogs and such.  Have not been here in ten years and that trend is very noticeable.  Hell many fields are no longer evenfenced in to allow for more corn.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Snake!
« Reply #30 on: August 10, 2015, 06:50:57 PM »
Quote from: roo_ster on August 10, 2015, 06:46:12 PM
Think it might be the great shift to corn to the exclusion of all else on many farms?  IOW dropping the cattle and hogs and such.  Have not been here in ten years and that trend is very noticeable.  Hell many fields are no longer evenfenced in to allow for more corn.

Definitely habitat loss and increased usage of pesticides killing food sources.
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« Reply #31 on: August 12, 2015, 08:51:44 AM »
Quote from: charby on August 10, 2015, 03:40:58 PM
Actually our herps numbers overall have dropped drastically in the last 20 years in Iowa. When species numbers start to drop their is something environmentally wrong and could impact the health of the human populations.

Any significant changes in agriculture techniques in the last 20 years? Or maybe all that CRP land back in production to make ethanol?
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Re: Snake!
« Reply #32 on: August 12, 2015, 08:55:31 AM »
And here is a picture of a "good" Copperhead.


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Re: Re: Re: Snake!
« Reply #33 on: August 12, 2015, 10:06:20 AM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on August 12, 2015, 08:51:44 AM
Any significant changes in agriculture techniques in the last 20 years? Or maybe all that CRP land back in production to make ethanol?


Lots of changes, ag is really clean now, as in weed and pest free as possible.
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Re: Snake!
« Reply #34 on: August 13, 2015, 08:07:46 PM »
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DANVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A couple who took their nearly 5-foot boa constrictor for a swim in a Pennsylvania river say the pet slipped away and they're concerned about its welfare.

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Re: Snake!
« Reply #35 on: August 13, 2015, 09:21:25 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on August 13, 2015, 08:07:46 PM
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This is why we need leash laws for snakes.

Can you imagine the "lost snake" poster they're going to put up?  It's longer than Jamis is tall. :laugh:

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