Snake sleuth on trail of a disappearing prairie species in Illinois

Becky Blankenship had been searching throughout the Will County Forest Preserve District for smooth greensnake nests – with no luck. She found plenty of other snakes under the coverboards she uses to attract the snakes for research purposes. There were eastern foxsnakes, DeKay’s brownsnakes and plains gartersnakes under the boards, but still no smooth greensnakes.
There were times she would check 80 coverboards over a two-day period searching for the snakes. And then, finally, on July 29, she found what she had sought since spring.

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