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My Boss in 2003 had to have a "Snake assessment" done on a piece of land we were developing. In Wisconsin we have Garter snakes, and Butler garter snakes. The Butler variety was considered endangered in Wisconsin in 2003. Don’t know why because our neighbor to the south Illinois has millions of em’. The Department of Natural Resources came out and did indeed find a few snakes. My Boss had to pay $1600 to have these stupid snakes DNA tested because the "Experts" from the DNR could not tell what of the two snakes they were. Turned out they were just plain old garter snakes and we could go ahead with the project, but this testing set us back about 7 months waiting for the results and the OK.
In 2006 Wisconsin took the butler garter snake off of it’s endangered species list. If you ever want to see my bosses blood boil, just ask him about the butler garter snakes. 😯