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Even experts trip up, be careful, watch where you are walking, NEVER reach where you cannot see And, if you come across a deadly snake, DO NOT try to move it pick it up, let it go its own way.
A renowned rattlesnake researcher, Marty Martin has died from a bite from a timber rattlesnake in West Virginia
William “Marty” Martin, a renowned snake researcher who dedicated his life’s work to the study of timber rattlesnakes, died last week after he was bitten by a snake on the property of his West Virginia home, his wife said. He was 80.
Martin, who was described as the “ambassador of rattlesnakes” in a 2019 profile on the online journal Terrain, was just 13 years old when he documented the first instance of timber rattlesnakes in the Bull Run Mountains in Virginia.
At the age of 17, he became a founding member of the Virginia Herpetological Society, and for 30 years he served on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s timber rattlesnake task force, which worked to preserve the species, according to Reptiles Magazine.
Rest in Peace sir!
