I have been interested in locality snakes for many years now. Back in '95 when I first headed out to Texas to hunt for Alterna it became apparent to me that I was not the only one that was into locality animals. I have tried very hard to keep my animals as pure as possible by not breeding just a good looking animal to another good looking animal. It takes two or more generations usually for offspring to start looking really nice, off course there are some exceptions. There are many animals that I have where there is no locale data like all my Central and South American Milksnakes. If I were to obtain locality animals from these locations then I would replace them.

The other thing that really turns me on are morphs. I just love albinos, anerythristics, hypos, aberrant patterns etc.... Now the ultimate animal in my book is a morph that is locality. I have a few and are always looking for more. If I am unsure of a certain animal or group of animals then I will just sell them as the are (no locale). Every locality animal that I have came right from the wild, caught by myself, one of my close friends or by a very, very reputable breeder.

I hope you enjoy this page and if I only give the county, it's because that's all I know for certain or I want to keep my exact locale to myself.

NEW MEXICO MILKS (CELAENOPS)
Hwy 170 (River road and Lajitas) Brewster and Presidio County. I also work with some animals from Eddy County, New Mexico. My stock is from: Ric Blair, Dave Long and Bob Montoya.

RED MILKS (SYSPILA)
Madison County, Georgia,and Lake Perry, Kansas. Stock from Dave Long and Kirk Setser.

ABILENE TEXAS MILKS
(PROBABLY GENTILIS X ANNULATA): Stock from Troy Hibbitts.

COASTAL PLAINS MILKS (TEMPORALIS)
Ocean County, New Jersey; St. Mary's County, Maryland; and soon some Tyrell County, North Carolina. Stock from Bob Scott and Jeoff Thorton.

UTAH MILKS (TAYLORI)
Diamond Forks, Utah (my adults are f2s); De Beque, Rifle and Parachute in Garfield County, Colorado. I have a wild caught anerythristic animal from Parachute. Stock from myself and some of my best friends.

CENTRAL PLAINS MILKS (GENTILIS)
All my Gentilis are from Colorado, Keenesburg and Roggen (Weld County), Lyons (Boulder County) and Golden (Jefferson County). I have a hypo /vanishing pattern group from Golden. Stock from myself and some of my best friends.

PALE MILKS (MULTISTRATA)
Cherry and Garden Counties of Nebraska. I also have some animals from Julesburg, Colorado (Sedgwick County). Stock from myself, Brian Mason and Troy Hibbitts.

I am very big into alterna like I said in the beginning of this page. I will try to keep it simple.

GRAY BANDED KINGS (ALTERNA)

Starting in the east: (Val Verde County).
Comstock, Langtry and Lozier cyn all on Hwy 90.
Pandale dirt: just out of Langtry. Stock from Aaron Mattson.
Hwy 277:I have several animals from 277. The road is so long that Alterna hunters have split it to south of Loma Alta or north of Loma. Also you will see big cutts, red bluff, picnic area, gas station etc..... These are all little sub locales that don't mean much to most people but mean everything to us. If I catch a animal close to the picnic area I will try to catch or buy a mate from the same area (give or take about three miles either way). Stock from Aaron Mattson, Adam Sweetman, Dave Long, Dave Dougherty and Dan Johnson.

Hwy 674: I have a pair of first generation animals that I bought from Bob Montoya. They were collected by Ed Nagelmeyer and Richard Mcnabb. These animals are from Kinney County.

Juno Road: I have some w/c animals from Juno Road (the dbl S curves) that produce anerythristic animals. These are some of my favorites. Stock from Martin Binns.

Sanderson: I am working with the east of town,west of town and north of town animals. Stock is from Troy Hibbitts, John Fraser and Damon Salcies.(Terrell County)

Now we go out west:
Davis Mts: I only have one pair at this time but plan on getting more. My stock is from Bob Montoya and Dave Long. Their stock was from Buzz Ross.(Jeff Davis County)

Lajitas:on the river road Hwy 170 (Brewster County). Stock from the wild caught animal that Aaron Mattson and myself collected in '00 and Craig Hodgson.

River Road: still Hwy 170 but now we are in Presidio County. Stock from Troy Hibbitts and Ric Blair.

Black Gap: also Brewster County just outside the Big Bend National Park (2627). Stock from Dan Johnson and John Siefer. I am working with the speckled and anerythristic animals from Dan and just have nice f1 animals from John for outcrossing.

Future Alterna should include some Alpine and X-mas Mtn animals. Stock will be that of Ric Blair.

Other locale animals include:
Stillwater Hypo Bullsnakes, John Ginter stock.
Aberrant Bullsnakes from Weld County, Colorado. Stock is my own.
Davis Mt., Texas Bairds Rats. I caught a piebald Bairds in '97 and I am working on proving it out.
Hwy 277 Bullsnakes I would say this is a monster strain of Bulls. Stock is my own.
De Beque, Colorado Emory Rats Stock is my own.
Mole Kings Madison County, Georgia. I will be working with a few more locales in the future.
Arizona Mt Kings, I work with many locales. Most my stock is from Randy Limburg.


Thanks Shannon