Smooth green snake (Opheodrys vernalis): a technical conservation assessment

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Although widely distributed in North America, and in numerous disjunct populations in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states, the status of the smooth green snake (smooth greensnake) (Opheodrys vernalis) is poorly known in the Rocky Mountain Region of the USDA Forest Service. This conservation assessment includes a review of the biology and ecology of the snake (including description, systematics, distribution and abundance, population trend, activity and movement patterns, habitat, food and feeding habits, breeding biology, population demography, and community ecology). Issues of conservation concern are explored and described, such as threats to the species (including intrinsic vulnerability and extrinsic factors: roads, resource extraction, livestock, recreation commercial collection, biocides, den destruction, fire, prey reduction, extreme weather events), conservation status in Region 2, management implications in the region, potential and recommended management practices and tools, and information needs. References are included and, in an appendix, a matrix population analysis.

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Citation (CSE style): Redder AJ (Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY), Smith BE (Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD), and Keinath DA (Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY). 2006 [accessed 20xx Xxx xx]. Smooth green snake (Opheodrys vernalis): a technical conservation assessment. [Golden (CO)]: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region. (Species Conservation Project.) 45 p. http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/projects/scp/assessments/smoothgreensnake.pdf. [Since this is an online-only document, access date should be included after 2006 date, and the words "Available at:" are not needed before the URL notation.]