Here is a cottonmouth that was captured in Newport News VA, at one of the farthest northern limits of their range. I am helping a fellow graduate student with his radio tracking thesis work.

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...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
Calvin and Hobbes (Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink', 1991)

