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Building a Bank Takes More Than Just Snakes (02/28/12)

In an area surrounded by rice fields and flanked by the Sutter bypass, there is a small but fertile area filled with water and plant life, but there are no crops growing here. This land has become a home dedicated to the giant garter snake. The spot in question is the 429-acre Sutter Basin Conservation Bank, created by Westervelt Ecological Services in 2008, and according to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Biologist Dwight Harvey, "this bank has become one of the best examples of created habitat for the giant garter snake in the Sacramento Valley." What was once agricultural land in an area surrounded by rice and other crops has become much more than that. (US Fish & Wildlife Service - Sacramento Fish & Wildlife Service)

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