Imagine you’re hiking your favorite trail through the montane shrublands and hear a small rustle in the vegetation by your feet. You immediately freeze in your tracks and concentrate on the ground ...

Kevin Wells of Eugene took this photo of a garter snake while on a hike with his girlfriend in April 2010 at Fern Ridge Reservoir. “A little ways in, this relatively large and particularly colorful ...

The other is that snakes don’t gather in general, since people tend to only come across one snake at a time. “So there was ...