How to Lure Out a Louisiana Pine Snake
- 1). Hunt for gopher holes in sparse pine forests and long-leaf pine savannahs in Bienville, Vernon, Sabine and Natchitoches Parishes in Louisiana and Sabine, Newton, Angelina, Jasper and Tyler counties in Texas. Note the locations of these gopher holes.
- 2). Set out non-lethal cage traps for pocket gophers in the locations you have noted in the months of March, April, May or November. Bait the traps with carrots.
- 3). Check the traps daily before 10 a.m. Observe the traps containing gophers between 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. for signs of interest by Louisiana pine snakes. Note and concentrate on any location where any pine snake is actually observed.
- 4). Capture Louisiana pine snakes with passive snake traps. These traps have funnel openings and contain non-toxic adhesive from which snakes cannot escape. Naturalists who study this snake estimate that it takes about 400 trap days to catch one Louisiana pine snake in a good location.
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