GRAYLING, MI – It’s snake week at Camp Grayling. Each spring, dozens of conservation researchers and volunteers descend on the Michigan Army National Guard base in northern Lower Michigan for four ...
A recovery plan for the eastern massasauga rattlesnake, which occurs in a small area of northwestern Pennsylvania and in a few other states and a Canadian province, has been completed by the U.S. Fish ...
Michigan’s only species of venomous snake is in trouble. Eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus) are becoming more isolated because of habitat fragmentation in the state, which is ...
Where are they? The Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake is a small, stout-bodied pit viper, patterned with a series of large, dark brown blotches set on a light gray or tan-colored body. Adults average ...
Student researchers Ava Whitlock and Brody Glei are getting ready to fly a drone equipped with a heat-sensitive camera to find rare eastern massasauga rattlesnakes. Standing together at Pierce Cedar ...