Why can’t the pine snakes cross the road? Hint: New Jersey
traffic might have something to do with it.
Drexel students will bring to light these and other findings
about the plight, perils and peculiarities
of the Northern Pine Snake in several presentations and posters at the
Ecological Society of America annual meeting next week (ESA 2013), based on
their research with Dr. Walt Bien’s Laboratory of Pinelands Research in the New
Jersey Pinelands.
Northern pine snakes are charismatic ambassadors for the
Pinelands National Reserve, an ecologically important region –designated as a
U.S. Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO and as the first National Reserve in the
United States. The pine snakes are
large, nonvenomous, docile and beautiful (at least to the non-phobic).