(HOST) Commentator Ted Levin recently took a walk with Alcott Smith, a retired veteranarian who monitors Vermont’s rare and endangered population of Timber Rattlesnakes – and he took along a tape recorder.
(LEVIN) I’m heading up with Alcott Smith on a trail to the top of a west-facing mountain…
(LEVIN) …Rattle up and under, “It’s an altogether beautiful animal.”
Ted Levin is a writer and photographer and winner of the 2004 Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing.