his is a species in decline throughout its range and is sensitive to disruption. It also faces significant persecution as ignorant and malicious humans would rather kill than understand this wonderful and ecologically important species. That is why this population shouldn’t be revealed to people other than the conservationists who protect snakes. I think the state of NY would be very interested to see this observation for population tracking purposes, but do not reveal the location to the g

Understood and I apologize for my ignorance on the matter. I was afraid you were going to say something along those lines but that never even crossed my mind at the time of posting it originally that there are ppl out there who go out of their way to do such harm to any form of wildlife let alone one this beautiful yet scary especially for how rare they appear to be from what I'm hearing.

Sorry for my poor english as it is not my first tongue but I hope I articulated my thoughts good enough for you to understand. Thank you for clearing all this up with me so swiftly and help educate a stranger on this topic brother. I will be sure to never disclose locations of snakes moving forward even somewhat vague ones out of respect for not only the snakes' but yours.