Well done on your resoration of the habitat and the wildlfe, us humans must learn to share the world with all the other non human animals etc for all our benifit. thank you.
I have a Texas Indigo boy, around 8 months old and already around 2.5-3 ft. Excited to watch him grow. He's incredibly gentle, never struck at me despite the tail rattle warning. Incredibly easy to feed as they're foragers, so I just leave a handful of ftp's around his enclosure and he gets to them when he wants. I hope we see a resurgance of this species in the south as folks continue to learn about beneficial snake species.
Incubating indigo go eggs and releasing the babies into the wild. That's the opposite of capturing the snakes. Sometimes it's good to do things backward.
What does it tske for wildlife biologists to care about the indigo snake population around my property? I found one dor at the end of my private driveway where it enters the main road where people frequently speed. I have sandhill with gopher tortoise populations and relatively large tracts of unfragmented land with may streams with bottomland areas flowing through the sandhill habitat. I sent pictures of the dor indigo snake to wildlife biologists hoping they would be able tk prevent habitat loss and destruction from occurring futher but there has been no habitat mangement practices done and no interest from the wildlife biologists. This is why these species are running out of hope.
Good effort on your part, and I hope you will be able to bring this the attention it deserves. Sometimes what it takes is a little insistency. Contact them again. Phone if possible, else mail. Say that you did not get any feedback the first time. Ask for what person (name and office) you should talk to. It´s probably not a lack of interest, but a lack of structure for dealing with (and replying to) information from the public, and your message getting lost along the way.
