Chances are, if you haven’t yet seen your first snake of the year, you will soon. In this week's episode of Wildlife Matters , the Masked Biologist talks about snakes of northern Wisconsin. This time of year, as the days get warmer, the nights are still cool, and vegetation is still relatively short, snakes are coming out of hibernation, moving about to hunt, and looking for places to lay eggs. Since snakes cannot generate their own body heat, they tend to come out on the gravel, stones, or