TIMMERMAN: CROTALUSADAMANTEUSON ORDWAY PRESERVE


Florida citizens have made over the last several decades to save some of it. The
State could provide critical insurance for future conservation by establishing
mandatory state educational curricula for schools, colleges, and universities. Such
curricula should stress why the preservation of biological diversity is so important
in our own efforts to survive into the 21st century. The stewardship of our natural
resources, including those creatures that are potentially dangerous and often
misunderstood, such as the alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), the Florida
panther (Felis concolor coryi) and the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, will be
passed on to future generations. Without the critical information needed to form
unbiased opinions, these citizens of an ever-more complicated world will be unable
to make the proper decisions affecting Florida's quality of life.



 LITERATURE CITED


Allen, E. R. 1961. How to hunt the eastern diamondback rattlesnake for rattlesnake control programs. Ross
 Allen's Reptile Institute, Silver Springs, Florida.
Bartram, W. 1928. Travels of William Bartram. M. Van Doren (ed.). Dover Publications, Inc., New York.
Bechtold, W.A., and H.A. Knight 1982. Florida's forests. U.S. Dept Agric. For. Serv. Resour. Bull. SE-62.
Brand, S. M. 1987. Small mammal communities and vegetative structure along a moisture gradient M.S.
 thesis. Univ. Florida, Gainesville.
 Byers, C. R., Steinhorst, R.K., and P.R. Krausman. 1984. Clarification of a technique for analysis of
 utilization-availability data. J. Wildl. Mgmt. 48(3):1050-1053.
Calleson, D., C. Cannon, E. Draper, D. Keller, and M. Macfie. 1993. A year preserved: Preservation 2000
 1992 Annual Report. The Nature Conservancy, Tallahassee, Florida.
 Carr, A. F. 1940. A contribution to the herpetology of Florida. Univ. Florida Publ. Biol. Sc. Series III (1).
 Conant, R., and J.T. Collins. 1991. A field guide to reptiles and amphibians of eastern and central North
 America. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Massachusetts.
 Cook, D. G. 1983. Activity patterns of the cottonmouth water moccasin, Agkistrodon piscivorus Lacepede,
 on a northwest Florida headwater stream. M.S. thesis. Univ. Florida, Gainesville.
 Costanzo, J.P. 1989. Effects of humidity, temperature, and submergence behavior on survivorship and
 energy use in hibernating garter snakes, Thamnophis sirtalis. Canadian J. Zool. 67:2486-2492.
 Ditmars, R. L. 1936. The reptiles of North America. Doubleday and Co. Garden City, New York.
 Dodd, C. K., Jr. 1987. Status, conservation and management Pp. 478-513 in R. A. Siegel, J. T. Collins, and
 S. S. Novak, eds. Snakes: Ecology and evolutionary biology. Macmillan Publishing Co., New York.
 ____ R. Franz, W. Timmerman, and B. G. Charest 1988. Home range of large upland snakes in
 relation to preserve size in Florida sandhills habitats. Abstract. Joint Ann. Mtg. Amer. Soc. Ichth.
 Herp. /Soc. Study Amph. Rep. /Herp. League. June 23-28, 1988, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
 Doren, R.F. 1991. Foreword. Pp. ix-xii in T.D. Center, RF. Doren, R.L Hofstetter, R.L Myers, and LD.
 Whiteaker, eds. Proc. Symp. Exotic pest plants. U.S. Dept Interior/Nat Park Ser., Washington, DC.
 Dye, R. 1989. Fire: RX for health in Florida's natural areas. Fla. Nat (Fall):2-5.
 Eisenberg, J. F. 1983. Conservation address: The gopher tortoise as a keystone species. Pp. 1-4 in R. J.
 Bryant and R. Franz, eds. Proc. 4th Ann. Mtg. Gopher Tortoise Council. Gainesville, Florida.
 Enge, K.M. 1991. Herptile exploitation: Annual performance report. Bureau Nongame Wildl., Florida Game
 Fresh Water Fish Comm., Tallahassee.
 Ernst, C.H. 1992. Venomous reptiles of North America. Smithsonian Press, Washington, D.C.
 Franz, R., 1984. Florida gopher frog and Florida pine snake as burrow associates of the gopher tortoise in
 North Florida. Pp.16-20 in D.R. Jackson and R.J. Bryant, eds. Proc. 5th Ann. Mtg. Gopher Tortoise
 Council, Gainesville, Florida.