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Posted by SE Texas Guy on December 27, 2001 at 01:43:57:

In Reply to: Having spent the last 30 years in Florida, there seems to have>>> posted by Dan P on December 26, 2001 at 18:30:47:

I have been to the Freer snake hunt many times myself over the last 20 years. The Snake King was an ICON in TX and Nationally and a whole book or treatise could be written about him( He is in the Bible, Wright and Wright, Handbook of Snakes which I have had since 1980)- he is a legend,although I think he died in the early 70's- he started in The NE and wound up in Brownsville TX in the 1920's- He was a Legend.

: been a decline in most of all reptiles. While developement has taken its tolls, in wild areas that remain, indigos appear to be holding there own. One would find it far more difficilt to locate a pine snake then a indigo. I observe about five indigos a year in the Tampa Bay area smashed on the roads. Recently one of the locale phospate plants wiped out about five hundred acres of some of the richest indigo habitat in central Florida. What little area that they left, the State bought and are converting to a park, which will not serve the indigos well. A friend of mine use to collect around Freerer Texas and said that one of the most common snakes he seen in the area around the oil rigs were texas indigos. I purchased several texas indigos from the Snake King back in the early seventies and was amazed how similiar they where to the easterns. If they (indigos)have the proper habitat, they seem to hold there own very well.

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: I have been to the Freer snake hunt many times myself over the last 20 years. The Snake King was an ICON in TX and Nationally and a whole book or treatise could be written about him( He is in the Bible, Wright and Wright, Handbook of Snakes which I have had since 1980)- he is a legend,although I think he died in the early 70's- he started in The NE and wound up in Brownsville TX in the 1920's- He was a Legend. : : : been a decline in most of all reptiles. While developement has taken its tolls, in wild areas that remain, indigos appear to be holding there own. One would find it far more difficilt to locate a pine snake then a indigo. I observe about five indigos a year in the Tampa Bay area smashed on the roads. Recently one of the locale phospate plants wiped out about five hundred acres of some of the richest indigo habitat in central Florida. What little area that they left, the State bought and are converting to a park, which will not serve the indigos well. A friend of mine use to collect around Freerer Texas and said that one of the most common snakes he seen in the area around the oil rigs were texas indigos. I purchased several texas indigos from the Snake King back in the early seventies and was amazed how similiar they where to the easterns. If they (indigos)have the proper habitat, they seem to hold there own very well.

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