MADISON COUNTY, Iowa – Madison County Conservation is warning residents to be on the lookout for rattlesnakes. Timber ...

Iowa's timber rattlesnake population has declined more than 50 percent in the past 30 years, according to one of the vipers' leading advocates, Department of Natural Resources Conservation Office Burt ...

IOWA (KWQC) - Cooler temperatures and the changing of leaves mean fall for the Midwest, but for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, it means surveillance of Timber Rattlesnakes. The department ...

IOWA, USA — Iowa’s small and scattered rattlesnake population faces a new challenge: a fungal disease that appears to be hitting the species harder than most other snakes in the state. The Iowa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) is very common, and people take that to extremes with rattlesnakes, which are much persecuted.

Iowa DNR veterinarian Rachel Ruden is studying the impact of a viral fungal pathogen on the state’s rattlesnake population. “It affects snakes kind of broadly and the vipers, so things that include ...

Part I. Range-wide elements for the conservation of the timber rattlesnakes -- Distribution and conservation status of Timber Rattlesnakes / W.H. Martin, Alvin R. Breisch, Christopher E. Petersen -- ...