Native to North America, garter snakes enjoy a range from Costa Rica to the subarctic plains of Canada. The specific boundaries vary for each species. You can find garter snakes in gardens ...

The Center launched our campaign to protect Mexican garter snakes under the Endangered Species Act in 2003 ... and extirpated from 85 to 90 percent of its U.S. range. So in 2007 the Center filed suit ...

HABITAT: The garter snake lives in freshwater marshes, ponds, canals, and slow-moving streams with emergent vegetation and frog populations, as well as connected grassy uplands with brushy cover.