Thursday, August 25, 2016
Threatened and Endangered Timber Rattlesnakes are supposedly doing well enough in Pennsylvania to be removed from the State's Endangered Species List.............I certainly hope that the state biologists there have an accurate count of the snakes as in adjacent New England, New York and the Middle Atlantic, the snakes are hanging on to existence by a thread................Intuitively, based on all that you hear about disturbed habitat and den destruction, the following claim by Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission Endangered Species Coordinator Chris Urban rings hollow to me------“Those of us who study them have made a few back-of-the-envelope estimates, but no one has a solid number"................“The statewide population is definitely in the hundreds of thousands"............... "Considering that about 50 percent of their habitat is inaccessible for one reason or another, the number could be higher than a million"...............Chris, I sure hope I am wrong and your population estimate is sound,,,,,,,,but I am not buying it without more evidence
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