A Tennessee hiker died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake he picked up. Timber rattlesnakes, copperheads, and massasauga rattlesnakes are Ohio's three venomous snake species. While venomous, ...

Jenna Alleman’s goal Thursday was to capture one timber rattlesnake. She succeeded, and then some — helping to wrangle a yellow phase rattler into a clear plastic tube to secure its bite end, then ...

Editor’s note: This column is reprinted from Saturday’s edition of The Trailhead, our free weekly email newsletter focused on Pennsylvania’s great outdoors. Sign up here. There was no time, really, to ...