What Snakes are Illegal to Shoot

I may just be missing it on the on the TPWD website. Is there any snakes that are not allowed to be killed in Texas? Thanks

Timber Rattler.

Its a Federal thing. Look at the Fed endangered species act list.

The Timber Rattler is all I know. Are there any others?

Black-striped Snake
Brazos Water Snake
Chihuahuan Desert Lyre Snake
Northern Cat-eyed Snake
Northern Scarlet Snake
Smooth Green Snake
Texas Indigo Snake
Texas Scarlet Snake
Timber Rattlesnake
Trans-Pecos Black-headed Snake

https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wil...listed-species/amphibians-reptiles.phtml

Indigo and Timber Rattler for sure

Well this is the first i have ever heard of this. They sure are not trying to spread awareness of this. I know a lot of people that still kill every snake they see.

Sounds to me like if you kill a snake and you don't know what it is....Don't be posting photos on Facebook.

Some people are idiots.

I wonder if they still have a restitution fee even if its in self defense, similar to Grizzly Bears?

A knowing violation of the Endangered Species Act is up to one year in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

Keyword: Knowing
Maybe I shouldn't have asked! lol
I actually don't ever see to many snakes at all really, I just wanted to information within mind's reach if the opportunity ever presented. I'm not muscular enough for federal prison, or county jail for that matter, and don't have an extra 250k to blow. For those reasons, I'm out!

I would add, that alot of people are idiots.

Way too many.....

Timber Rattlers are common on our lease. You’d be surprised how many people do not know they are protected.

Seems to be 99% don't know they are protected...

It seems to be that to 99% a rattler is a rattler and needs to be killed.

These two

So true there GLC!!

Like I said before, "if you shoot those kind, just don't post it on Facebook"

Copperheads and cottonmouths are the only snakes on my kill list. All others get a pass.

GLC

I support killing those two....I let snakes have a pass…..

Found this guy today. Never knew the existed and had to google. Texas Blind Snake. Cute little bugger

Way too many....

As mentioned in off topic, that's the destructive hammerhead worm. Destroy with extreme prejudice. Your roots will thank you.

Dead snakes tell no lies.

Refusing to kill snakes that have traditionally been called "poisonous" has become the new way to elevate oneself within the outdoors community.

I noticed a Houston TV station just recently referred to "poisonous" snakes. I wonder how many calls and emails they got about that.

I’m just to the point of not killing a snake, or pretty much any critter other than invasives, unless I’m gonna eat it.

I don’t really care if anybody else kills one, but I always wonder why some folks think the way that they do.

I kill all venomous snakes because I would hate to leave one that kills the next person that it bites. I also kill all rat snakes due to their detriment to the quail population. Killing some snakes is part of land management if you know anything about the subject.

Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus Horridus) are not federally protected. They are, however, protected in and by every state where they are found.

That is not a Texas Blind Snake. It is a Bipalium (Bipalium kewense), commonly known as a Hammerhead Worm. Very poorly studied but are known to feed on earthworms and possibly other slow moving organisms.

Yuck!

The comment about elevating oneself, reminds me of vegans. I have been giving most snakes a pass ever since my stepdad got on me for killing a bunch of bullsnakes with a hoe one day. To me they were just a binch of scary snakes, I didn't understand why we needed them around. I didn't know any better at the time but at least I had a man to teach me.





I was taught to never kill anything unless you are gonna eat it when I was a boy. But I learned quickly that there were many exceptions to this rule! Some things need killin'!