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Here in Michigan we only have one poisonus snake...the Massasauga rattle snake. As a kid I remember it mistakenly called the Timber Rattlesnake but now know that name is incorrect. There are Timber Rattle snakes but not in Michigan. The Massasauga is rather rare and I have personally never seen one in the wild despite that I have spent a greater proportion of my life (I am 70 now),out in the woods than most of the people who would refer to them selves as avid hunters/sportsmen. The Massasauga, a relatively small snake, rarely bites, is reclusive and rarely bites people and when they do, the person almost always survives.
There was a High School boy I knew of who would go into the river bottoms/swamps (Pere Marquette River), in the summer and collect them. He claimed that they were not that hard to find and the fact that people rarely saw them was because few people are interested in pushing through the growth of Summer foliage and enduring the clouds of mosquitoes in the river bottoms.
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