Snakes On An Island: Massachusetts Plans Colony To Save Endangered Species

Snakes On An Island: Massachusetts Plans Colony To Save Endangered Species

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It sounds like the plot for a terrible horror movie, but the plan to build a rattlesnake colony on an abandoned island in the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts is real. NPR’s Audie Cornish talks to Tom French of the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.

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