It’s a serious crisis that hardly anyone’s talking about.” This aquatic, secretive garter snake was historically found in all of Arizona’s major watersheds, in addition to the upper Gila and San ...

The camouflaged reptile remained hidden until the homeowner noticed that “one of the rocks looked a little off.” ...

After almost two decades of Center advocacy, in 2021 the Service granted northern Mexican garter snakes 20,326 acres of protected critical habitat in Arizona and New Mexico. Unfortunately that's a 90% ...