Here in the Inland Northwest, a boa constrictor lurks under leaves, logs and inside rodent burrows. That’s right, a boa species infamously known for squeezing its prey to death lives in parts of the ...

It can take years of hiking the same trails or of living in the same neighborhood to see the secretive rubber boa. This native boa comes out at night on a slow-motion hunt for small rodents and ...

Man finds snake. Man calls Fish and Game. Snake meets Fish and Game biologist. Biologist takes snake home. Snake ditches biologist. That's the short version of the story of Grubb, the little snake ...

Soon after I read the Field Guide about the rubber boa [Sept. 6], I ran into one. My buddy John Balbino and I were hiking back from Garnett Lake when John decided to stop to fly-fish. A brown snake ...

If I say “boa,” you probably picture the tropical rain forests of South America, where the poster boy of the Boidae family, Boa constrictor, slithers through the brush. Your mind probably doesn’t leap ...