I*’m surprised there are any left...
the East Coast were teeming with them at one time...
Then the white man came and cleared the forest, chopped down trees to build cabins and grow their crops....
the snakes migrated West before the settlers until by the 1800s there were types of snakes in mid western states where they had not previously been...
I was about 12 on a nature trail in Oklahoma, buddy and me had been warned so we had shovels.There were snakes of all kinds, sunning on the path, twined around trees, everywhere.
We came across a troop of Brownies, terrified.
With me on point and him on drag we managed to get back to the car lot.
I still get the willies thinking about it.
Oh yeah, and little prairie rattles caug in bailing twine, so you hook a bale and buck it—and it is no happier to see you ...