Are rattlers endangered in Tennessee?
by Dave Treadway posted June 27, 2007 Danny Bryan is currently conducting a study at Center Hill Lake on a wildlife species most people do their best to avoid. Such a study on the timber rattlesnake has not been done before in Tennessee, said Professor Bryan, who teaches biology at Cumberland University, in Lebanon, Tenn., although studies have been done in other northern states. In 1999 or 2000, there was a coalition among several states, headed up by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, working on a Conservation Action Plan for timber rattlesnakes. It looks like the intent of this plan is to see if and when the rattlesnake needs to be put on the threatened and endangered species list here.
