Outdoors: State’s snakes warrant sympathy — and celebration

Bob Cousy’s sacred number helps me remember that 14 snake species make their homes in Massachusetts. Garter, water, milk, ribbon, hognose, red-bellied, ring-neck, green, brown, worm, black racer, black rat, copperhead, and timber rattle snakes all harmlessly — and usually unnoticeably — kill pernicious vermin for us.The state’s only two venomous species — the shy and reclusive timber rattlesnake and the […]