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I personally don't believe rattlers would leave their denning area no matter how much harrassed,otherwise it wouldn't be so easy to wipe out entire populations of them at their dens.Birds will leave an area if harrassed,so will mammals but look at their mobility.I think snakes are linked to...

what you say in regards to timbers may well be valid.I have not had that much experience with them and excepting one snake they've all been out of state so may behave differently.I did forget to tell the story of the black racer i attempted to catch under the same board eight times one summer...

Glo Amanitas can do to your liver in one hour what it would take a lifetime of hard liquor to do to most.If your a lover of yer liver keep amanita out of yer frying pan. Alfie

I have never read anything about a connection between fire and shrooms.That would be interesting to research.The reason i believe we have so many shrooms right now is one it is the season for most shrooms from about now till winter brings and end to it.namely august till november is prime season...

If handling a snake could stress it and cause it to leave the area would not also any type of unsuccessful predatory attack alos cause the same?I have never heard predatory attacks causing animals to abandon their range namely because wherever they go there are predators so moving will not...

it is inserting chips into snakes that allow people to track them to their dens or wherever they go so that they can be harrassed at will and occasionally get infections that kill them like happened to ol grandad.They do the same to pets and i have heard rumors of doing it to kids in case their...

there are things in the barrens at night that are more dangerous and scarier then the Jersey Devil.Namely drunks carrying guns for target practice around the camp fire.I've ran into these before.Was investigating a fire and yelling and suspected partiers.as i got closer to the clearing they...

i have no problem with eating road killed snakes.I would have no problem with eating a snake someone else killed.I just like snakes so much I'd have a hard time killing one myself unless very hungry.I am humored by people who state they will not eat this or not eat that,my wife is one of...

i do agree with milking because antivenin is a legitimate need for the same reason i unfortunately agree with animal testing of medicinal products.I also really don't believe any lasting harm is done by measuring and sexing if the probing is done competently which i am not competent to do it and...

Swwitt, you have a point.Their are many instances of abuse.Biologists often cram snakes into flat boxes to measure them no doubt stressful to the snake.They also tube them so they can stick probes up their cloacas to sex them which must be very stressful to males who are not intended by nature...

snakes have more body meat ratio per weight then probably any other animal but no I have never eaten one and it pisses me off when I see these new so called survival shows cut ones head off to fry it up.I couldn't bring myself to intentionally kill a snake,I'd off Bambi first.If I was starving...

Dragon, I know a fellow who kept a pair of dusky pygmies at one time and he occasionally free handed them because he said they were so docile he didn't feel they were a threat and he claimed if bitten the worst that might happen was he would lose a digit.Now I have ten digits and wish to keep...

I think he thinks your a health risk because you believe rattlers are cute ,cuddly friends of ours.I however don't believe you were implying that we could take them into our laps and pet them,just that we had no fear of being hunted down and killed by them like prey. I can say that i have...

I think what Dragon meant to imply is that if the snakes are left unmolested,not stepped on or toyed with they are quite content to leave us alone also.any snake stepped on will bite you or any snake being aggravated to the point of breaking will bite you.some snakes will bite much quicker then...

your right,it is indian pipe.also the second and third pics below the bright yellow shroom i believe is destroying angel of the very poisonous amanita genus.a very beautiful shroom that will liquefy your liver with one mouthful.squirrels and turtles love it. Al

Dragon is exactly on target.what you are seeing is a rattler fist fight without the blood and cops. Al

Guy, I saw that AC when out there with Bill but didn't know what it was and really didn't check it out very well. finding 140 year old wood under the water was really a nice find.do you think it was cedar?That stuff lasts forever when underwater. Al

technically your right.they are horseshoe crabs but the locals here have called them king crabs ever since i have been a little tyke.I usually use the term king crab myself and have been reprimanded by non locals for doing so.Perhaps their is something to be said for latin names.lets just start...

don't do it Guy. That little car of yours does have it's limits:-) Al

now this sounds like fun! what was it you said you slap her with? :-) Al