Draft Recovery Plan for Louisiana Pinesnake Now Available

The draft recovery plan for the Louisiana pinesnake is now available as The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s remove it from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife.

A key part of the strategy to help the reptile recover is to continue the partner-led captive breeding and reintroduction efforts in the Kisatchie National Forest Catahoula District. In areas where partners have reintroduced the snake, there has been success.

The Louisiana pinesnake is an egg-laying, non-venomous constrictor found in western and central Louisiana and eastern Texas. The Service listed it as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in April 2018, primarily due to habitat loss and degradation. Critical habitat for the snake was proposed in October 2022.