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    Snakes play an important role in ecosystems by controlling rodent populations but face threats from habitat loss and human fear. The document then provides pictures and descriptions of the different snake species found in Montana, including racers, rubber boas, hog-nosed snakes, smooth greensnakes, gartersnakes, rattlesnakes, milksnakes, and gophersnakes. It notes that male rattlesnakes wrestle for dominance and that gophersnakes can swim and are also sometimes called bullsnakes.

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    Snakes play an important role in ecosystems by controlling rodent populations but face threats from habitat loss and human fear. The document then provides pictures and descriptions of the different snake species found in Montana, including racers, rubber boas, hog-nosed snakes, smooth greensnakes, gartersnakes, rattlesnakes, milksnakes, and gophersnakes. It notes that male rattlesnakes wrestle for dominance and that gophersnakes can swim and are also sometimes called bullsnakes.

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    Snakes of Montana Back Country

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    Snakes play an important role in ecosystems by controlling rodent populations but face threats from habitat loss and human fear. The document then provides pictures and descriptions of the different snake species found in Montana, including racers, rubber boas, hog-nosed snakes, smooth greensnakes, gartersnakes, rattlesnakes, milksnakes, and gophersnakes. It notes that male rattlesnakes wrestle for dominance and that gophersnakes can swim and are also sometimes called bullsnakes.

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    of Montana

    SNAKES HAVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN OUR ECOSYSTEM, INCLUDING FREE RODENT CONTROL.
    BUT THEY DON’T HAVE IT EASY; HABITAT LOSS AND HUMAN FEAR RESULT IN THE LOSS OF MANY SNAKES.

    FWP/A. Puchniak Begley


    E. Dallalio

    FWP
    YOUNG RACERS DON’T AN UPTURNED SNOUT
    LOOK LIKE THEIR HELPS THE HOG-NOSED
    D. Sasse

    M. Bell
    PARENTS UNTIL AGE SNAKE DIG FOR PREY

    Eastern Racer Rubber Boa Western Hog-nosed Snake


    (Coluber constrictor) (Charina bottae) (Heterodon nasicus)

    FWP/A. Puchniak Begley


    FWP/K. DuBois

    FWP/K. DuBois
    T. Hoberg

    Smooth Greensnake Western Terrestrial Gartersnake Plains Gartersnake Common Gartersnake


    (Opheodrys vernalis) (Thamnophis elegans) (Thamnophis radix) (Thamnophis sirtalis)

    FWP/K. DuBois
    M. Collins

    D. B. Shepard

    MALE RATTLESNAKES SNAKES CAN SWIM!!


    WRESTLE FOR DOMINANCE! (GOPHERSNAKE)

    K. Werner
    K. Storrar

    RATTLESNAKES A GOPHERSNAKE
    Prairie Rattlesnake CAN ALSO BE
    ARE MONTANA’S ONLY Milksnake Gophersnake
    (Crotalus viridis) (Lampropeltis triangulum) (Pituophis catenifer) CALLED A
    VENOMOUS SNAKE
    ‘BULLSNAKE’

    Discover Montana’s Wildlife


    —— discover, preserve, protect ——
    Thank you to all contributing photographers that made this project possible.

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