Mineral Point Wisconsin decided to do some work to the county fair grounds 25 years ago or so. It was early spring and still pretty cold. They found a den with 500+ in it, they where all relocated. Interesting thing is that no one in the community had seen a eastern timber rattler in years. Makes one wonder if the years of aggressively killing them took out the predominate rattlers (aggressive rattling) and the passive ones, that were less likely to rattle took over the gene pool.
Relocated to a boot/belt factory?