Rattlers protected:[Final Edition]
Niagara Falls Review Niagara Falls, Ont.:Dec 11, 2001.  p. A2 

Article types:	News
Dateline:	WAINFLEET
Section:	Briefs
Publication title:	Niagara Falls Review. Niagara Falls, Ont.: Dec 11, 2001.  pg. A.2
Source Type:	Newspaper
ISSN/ISBN:	08391572
ProQuest document ID:	314068411
Text Word Count	98
Article URL:	http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=309&VInst=PROD&VName=PQD&VType=PQD&Fmt=3&did=000000314068411&clientId=17280

Abstract (Article Summary)

The massasauga rattlesnake, one of 15 known adults that call the Wainfleet bog home, will be protected with $12,500 in new habitat restoration efforts by the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority.

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(Copyright The Review (Niagara Falls) 2001)

WAINFLEET -Thanks to the federal government, Angie will have more room to slither on her belly and bare her venomous fangs in Wainfleet.

The massasauga rattlesnake, one of 15 known adults that call the Wainfleet bog home, will be protected with $12,500 in new habitat restoration efforts by the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority.

The money, provided by Ottawa's Habitat Stewardship Program, will allow the authority to continue its eight-year effort to return natural vegetation to the bog.

The massasauga rattler is Ontario's only indigenous poisonous viper. In 1991, the federal government listed the snake as a threatened species.