This aquatic, secretive garter snake was historically found in all of Arizona’s major watersheds, in addition to the upper Gila and San Francisco headwater streams in southwestern New Mexico. Invasive ...

Two New Mexico river snake species nearing extinction were the subject of a lawsuit filed by a conservation group challenging reductions in habitat land set aside by the federal government for ...

That amounts to 23,785 protected acres in Arizona and New Mexico. The snake is known for living almost its entire life in or immediately alongside water. The waterways now protected for the snake ...