Herping in Rattlesnake territory

[wolfpacksved]

I find most milks in rolling hill country. Road cruising from dusk to dawn is usually pretty productive. And of course, rocks, tin, trash piles, etc produce a few as well. Happy hunting

[Steven@HumboldtHerps]

I'm all for flipping rocks when they are manageable, but digging into rock walls, to me, is excessive. That can't easily be repaired like flipping the rock back to its original position. Sounds like habitat destruction to me!

Shame, shame....

[Spankenstyne]

Yeah I'd definitely suggest not destroying dens. I don't have a problem with someone legally taking a native species from the wild, but digging them up & other habitat destruction ensures that another can't move in to take it's place.

[ConcinusMan]

I think milks sound like they are pretty much like rubber boas around here in that, some people seem to find quite a few easily, others can look for years and never find one, even if they are in the right place! In all the years I've been here, I've only found 3 (boas) and that's when I wasn't looking for them. And yet, I see kids sometimes with hands full of them. Oh, same goes for rosey boas. In San Diego I used to see kids carrying several of them and finding lots of them. I only found one in 4 years.