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[firemedic238]

While most snakes will not hurt you, We have removed(and moved them to better hunting grounds) 2 rattlesnakes from our street in the last week. We have also seen other types of snakes on the trails and dead in the street. While most rattlers will not kill a healthy adult, they can cause great harm and or death to small kids and pets. Just a heads up while out and about durning the warm weather.
Enjoy and be safe
The rescuemedic

[Eeestll]

Which area of the parkway?
I have seen 2 tiny black snakes on the trails so far. I managed to stay calm. I need to work on this, as I am absolutely petrified of snakes and I know they are around.

[4thgenFolsomite]

While most snakes will not hurt you, We have removed(and moved them to better hunting grounds) 2 rattlesnakes from our street in the last week. We have also seen other types of snakes on the trails and dead in the street. While most rattlers will not kill a healthy adult, they can cause great harm and or death to small kids and pets. Just a heads up while out and about durning the warm weather.
Enjoy and be safe
The rescuemedic

where are you removing them too?

[mylo]

where are you removing them too?

Broadstone.

[john]

While most snakes will not hurt you, We have removed(and moved them to better hunting grounds) 2 rattlesnakes from our street in the last week. We have also seen other types of snakes on the trails and dead in the street. While most rattlers will not kill a healthy adult, they can cause great harm and or death to small kids and pets. Just a heads up while out and about durning the warm weather.
Enjoy and be safe
The rescuemedic

Who on earth would relocate a rattlesnake? Only place I'd relocate them to is in a canvas bag on the middle of Hwy 50!

[4thgenFolsomite]

Who on earth would relocate a rattlesnake? Only place I'd relocate them to is in a canvas bag on the middle of Hwy 50!

that's my feeling too. where could you possibly move them where they would not upset the new environment? I think people want to pretend that they have no impact on the environment. let's face it, the growth and development in Folsom is destroing habitat. you can't just let a rattlesnake go somewhere else without it changing the area you're letting it out in. Something else is going to starve or die because of the introduction of that well-intentioned action.

[FamilyMan]

Broadstone.

That's just funny right there.

[MikeinFolsom]

The Fire Department will come out and remove snakes as well. I have heard that their policy is to relocate the harmless species, but the rattlesnakes are a different story. They take them out and cut their head off. Then they bury the head and dispose of the body. No place for rattlers in our little town. No sir.

[TwoWheels]

I encountered four snakes yesterday on my bike commute between Rancho & Folsom. One was a baby rattler.

[aztransplant]

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[TwoWheels]

So, are they right out in the open in the middle of the trails or are they hiding out on the sides in the bushes/weeds? I've THOUGHT I've seen several snakes on the Parkway trail in the past couple weeks, but they always turn out to be something else (like a curled up STICK)! What time of day are they most prevalent? I'm a late-day jogger (the hour before sunset).

All four were sunning in the middle of the trail, not hard to spot. I saw all of them on my ride home from Rancho at around 6:30 pm.

The first that I saw I believe was a king snake, but I was riding too fast and he moved too fast for me to identify him. They can bite, and it'll hurt a little, but they're not venomous. No risk of confusing them with the similar coral snake in CA since coral snakes don't live here.

The second was a striped racer. I went back to see him, but he was long gone by the time I got back. Again, not venomous. I remember catching these as a kid. They are rather small so can bite, but it'd have to be your finger or something.

The third was a rather large gopher snake. They can look a LOT like rattlesnakes. They even imitate the sound of a rattler. I had to look closely at him to be sure. Again, non-venomous. He also slithered away quickly.

The fourth was a baby rattler. He was the only aggressive one that I encountered. I went back to get a closer look at him and he reared his head back and was making little striking motions. He didn't have his rattle yet, as they're born without one! Don't expect to be able to ID them that way! A rattlesnake, or pit viper, has quite notable pits below their nostrils.

In my experience most snakes just like to be left alone and will leave when they see you. Rattlers tend to be a little more aggressive and defend their spot, but will also leave eventually if you stand a safe distance away and throw sticks their way. (If you do that, make sure that they've actually left, because then you've made them mad!) Rattlesnakes can only strike a relatively short distance so don't worry -- they won't launch from 6 feet off the trail and grab you!

Edited by TwoWheels, 06 June 2006 - 08:33 AM.

[OceanGirl]

The closest I think I've ever come to a heart attack was while hiking back from Horsetail Falls on the way over to Tahoe. It was a dirt trail and had a bunch of scrub brush type bushes on the sides. Well, I was looking down as I walked (fearing rattlesnakes) when I stepped and noticed a HUGE coiled one right next to my hiking boot and just under the bush. I made a high jump record as I jumped aside, tripped and fell over the bush on the other side of the path and then made another record in how fast a person can get up and jump again as it occurred to me his buddy might have been on the other side of the path in the bush I fell on!! Now I wish I had it all on video........I'm sure it was quite the site. Now my husband teases me when I jump various places while hiking if I hear a noise in the brush, grass or whatever!!

[headshrink]

Yeah, if my 4yr old got bit by a snake and I found out it had been "relocated," I don't think I would be silent about it. (And I am being nice right now)

[Buford T Justice]

Yeah, if my 4yr old got bit by a snake and I found out it had been "relocated," I don't think I would be silent about it. (And I am being nice right now)

me neither, I'd rather make a nice pair of boots outta them

[sharkysam1]

Broadstone.

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