GRAYLING, MI – It’s snake week at Camp Grayling. Each spring, dozens of conservation researchers and volunteers descend on the Michigan Army National Guard base in northern Lower Michigan for four ...

Congratulations are in order for Michigan’s only brand of venomous snake — a threatened species — and the staff at the University of Michigan’s busy botanical gardens, as it turns out. An Eastern ...

Eastern Massasauga rattlesnakes are found in the wetlands of Michigan and other Midwestern states. “These are fairly large and stable populations of Eastern Massasaugas,” study co-author and Michigan ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Months after an endangered rattlesnake was found killed at a University of Michigan garden, a new brood of the species was found there. The Matthaei Botanical Gardens and ...

EAST LANSING, MI – Michigan is home to a single species of venomous snake, and the isolated pockets of its populations are making it more likely it will go extinct. Researchers at Michigan State ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — It’s been a few weeks since a family of massasauga rattlesnakes was discovered in a culvert at the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens, capturing the attention of ...

According to officials at the gardens, in June, the rattlesnake started to frequent the culvert drain in the Great Lakes Gardens. She became such a fixture that the staff eventually named her Gertrude ...