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Families living in rural areas south-west of Counselor, New Mexico, were telling him they saw sickly bull snakes and near-death rattlers above ground during the snowy, winter months of the south.

Officials set up infrared cameras and bait and unleashed a pair of bull snakes.

For example, bull snakes are commonly photographed in dry, dead grass, Becker says.

She found eight mushrooms on her first ever trip but also had a brief encounter with a bull snake.

The students found 119 different snakes, mostly three species that are nonvenomous and harmless - bull snakes, milk snakes and racer snakes.