permaculture

["Jerome Osentowski" <jerome@crmpi.org>]

Mark,  We have another small green snake that lives in the pond , and there
are bull snakes in the area. but I have not seen one for several years.  I
would like to get one to live under the hen house for rodent control.
jerome
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Jerome Osentowski, Director
Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
PO Box 631
Basalt, CO 81621   U.S.A.

Tel/fax (970) 927-4158    E mail: jerome@crmpi.org

For more information, please visit our web site at <<www.crmpi.org>>


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>From: Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
>To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [permaculture] snakes
>Date: Tue, Oct 29, 2002, 3:53 PM
>

> At 07:50 AM 10/29/02 -0700, you wrote:
>>Mark, In our climate the key is keeping the snakes worm, so the rocks need
>>to be exposed to the sun.  They make their homes behind the rock walls that
>>support the forest garden beds.  In the summer they frequent the horse
>>radish patch and loveage,  jerome
>>--
>>Jerome Osentowski, Director
>>Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
>>PO Box 631
>>Basalt, CO 81621   U.S.A.
>
> I was thinking of a place for them to winter.  such places gather large
> numbers of snakes in the fall, sometimes a mix of species.  I'm interested
> in basking rocks too, worked some flatter darker stones into my rock garden
> just for this.  Keep an eye out for basking snakes on the road in the fall,
> I like to "relocate" such critters as they usually get squashed otherwise.
> M
>
>>Tel/fax (970) 927-4158    E mail: jerome@crmpi.org
>>
>>For more information, please visit our web site at <<www.crmpi.org>>
>>
>>
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>> >From: Mark Ludwig <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
>> >To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
>> >Subject: Re: [permaculture] Re: Caragana +@Jerome
>> >Date: Mon, Oct 28, 2002, 4:31 PM
>> >
>>
>> > At 06:57 AM 10/28/02 -0700, you wrote:
>> >>15 years ago I brought up a dozen garder snakes
>> >>from my walks down to the spring that runs 80 feet below the ridge
>> where our
>> >>forest garden and greenhouse are located.
>> >
>> > I've wondered if one could build a hibernaculum and snake habitat garden
>> > out of an old septic tank,  root cellar or some such filled with lots of
>> > rock platforms and vented with an easy to access snake entrance hole.
>> > Mark
>> >
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> Mark P. Ludwig
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> University of Wisconsin -Madison
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