Well Tony...make sure that you take a camera that is going to last a long long time. The four pines that I have seen in the area stretch over a 40 year period. I guess the good news is though two of them were seen in the last 10 years. The first one I saw was in 1971 and it was alive on the road. It was on route 68 and I swerved to miss it and pulled off the road and went running back to get it. By then the snake had crossed into the other lane and a car coming from behind me swerved across into the other lane to hit it. Man was I heart broken as I did not even know that they existed in that area. I have seen a couple of others since then on the road dead around Ducktown Tenn. Many times though in that area, people confuse baby black rats and hognose snakes with pinesnakes.

Dan

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