Meet Jim Andrews: Vermont's No. 1 snake man

Posted on September 2, 2013 |

• Addison County
• Salisbury

By Candace Page for In This State

Jim Andrews’ boots went splodge, splodge as he trudged along a waterlogged ditch in the mostly pathless Blueberry Hill Wildlife Management Area in the town of Ira on a hot July morning.

His gaze flicked from side to side, alert for the slightest movement. He was already wet to the knees from a thus far unsuccessful brookside hunt for the skittish spring salamander, a slimy amphibian colored the ugly pink of calves’ liver.

“What are we finding?” Andrews called to Cindy Sprague, a volunteer assistant from Huntington.

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