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Article: Snake slows development to a crawl. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- September 3, 1993
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ This is the time of year when newborn San Francisco garter snakes leave their hillside burrows in search of tadpoles and frogs and slither right into the debate over how far humans must go to protect an endangered species.
The end of the drought has revived the plant and animal life in ponds and marshes along the San Mateo County coast, providing the young snakes with an abundant food supply and giving herpetologists hope that the long decline in the snake's population may be ending.
But the recovery of the wetlands has also reopened the question of whether any area that might be good snake habitat must be preserved or restored even when sightings of ...