Features, Meeker

Watch for rattlers

MEEKER | In the last week two verified reports have surfaced of rattlesnakes coming down into town in Meeker, one in Sage Hills subdivision and one behind the visitor bleachers at Starbuck Stadium. Additional anecdotal reports have come in as well, but without photographic evidence.
Of the 30 or so species of snakes in Colorado, only three are venomous, and they’re all rattlesnakes. The Prairie rattler is the most common, and can be found below…