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Article: Beware the Mojave Green rattlesnake: Preparing for snake season.
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- The Desert Dispatch (Barstow, CA)
- Article date:
- May 10, 2006
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Byline: Tracie Troha
May 10--As the days grow warmer High Desert residents are shedding their winter coats and warming themselves in the sun. And that's just the snakes.
Vicki Telford, an amateur herpetologist who has spent nearly 30 years educating the public on snakes, said this is the time of year when young snakes are hatched and the adults are more active. She warns residents to keep an eye out for the desert's dangerous predators, especially the Mojave green rattlesnake.
Residents of tract homes may not have to worry about poisonous rattlesnakes, but those living in rural areas need to be aware of the dangers.
"The Mojave green ...