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foxturtle
at Mon Mar 8 18:39:13 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by foxturtle ]
On Google Earth, that area, like a lot of Indiana, looks to be 95% corn fields. Of course, there are still bull snakes in solid corn field areas in NW Indiana. There are no pocket gophers in SW Indiana (there are tons in NW Indiana), and this may have some impact on the viability of that population. The population of bull snakes in that area may not have been very strong, even before man intervened. The fact that eastern bull snakes occur in disjunct pockets indicates that their populations have been receding for some time.
I'm planning a trip to the SW corner of Indiana once the weather gets warm enough for flipping. I may stop through the Wheatland area on my way, just for curiosity's sake.
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