You can help keep the poisonious snakes numbers down if you get a book describing them. Especially the King snake. Learn to identify this fellow. He is a cannibal. And he will do his best to take down any rattler, Cottonmouth or Copperhead he can find. I have a great number in my timber and I educate everyone I can to not molest them. In 15 years here on the farm I have seen one poisonous snake, a Cottonmouth. There one advantage? They are immune to a snake bite; and if bitten, just go ahead and eat the biter. The best friend a hunter/fisherman can have.

Russ