The narrow-headed garter snake is a nonvenomous snake found in and near the cool, clear headwater streams of the U.S. Southwest. With its stripeless, grayish-colored body, it has been called “drab” in ...

She said restrictions on human activities along the rivers would restore the struggling water supplies and protect species like the garter snakes. “Protecting rivers that disappearing animals ...

Their winter dens are subterranean caverns formed by the area's water-worn limestone bedrock ... tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes slip out of their limestone dens near Narcisse ...