Blake,
Your getting good advice now from some highly respected feild herpers. I like learning from these guys too. Take there advice.

Good herping spots can take a lot of time to find and develop, driving and looking for good looking habitat, building relationships w/ landowners, searching maps for good public access, and even after all this work, you work over a nice looking hillside and you don't find a herp, so you keep going back to this spot because it looks good. This may take many days/weeks of hard herping to prove your on to a good spot, and when you do prove the spot holds the target animal your looking for, you may not be interested in giving up all your hard earned information to the first person that asks you where to find milksnakes.
I'm a fishing guide here in Montana and you should see how closed lipped fishermen are about there spots they fish. I've seen fist fights over a good spot. Really.

So, w/ all this food for thought I'll leave you w/ one more recommendation: Brian Hubbs's book Mountain Kings. He has great photos of habitat that Mountain Kings live in, which will cross over to milksnakes to a large degree.

-Dell

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