snake

There was no time, really, to question whether this was a good idea. Thursday, May 1, I found myself among 20 state conservation officer trainees, wal...

I’ve hunted a lot of different animals in my day, but one species I would probably shy away from would be rattlesnakes. I don’t hate snakes, but I def...

KANE — It’s a terrifying part of rural living, encountering wildlife that don’t want you around. An 11-year-old boy had the misfortune of being bitten...

Snakes, and pretty much all reptiles across Pennsylvania, have launched into the annual fall move to denning and hibernation sites. For many, like the...

A recovery plan for the eastern massasauga rattlesnake, which occurs in a small area of northwestern Pennsylvania and in a few other states and a Cana...

As a kid and an adult, I have spent countless hours in the forests of Pennsylvania. Though a rattlesnake about three feet long once crawled across the...

Last week, Matt Wilson, Terra Haines and I were in Cameron County on our quest for rattlesnakes. None of us intended to harm the snakes in any way, th...

Just the word ‘ snake ’ grabs a person’s attention. But, the word ‘ rattlesnake ’ strikes the individual, pardon the pun, with a primal response that ...

Why did it have to be snakes? Chief Bryan Phelps of the Sweden Township Police Department in Potter County isn’t Indiana Jones, but found himself wran...

Kathy Kehoe credits her early childhood years at her family’s Dallas City farm near Rew as the experience that gave her the know-how to kill a cobra s...

Andy Crouse of Foster Township has an unusual fondness for snakes. In fact, he said he loves how the scales on snakes feel, as well as how the creatur...