Boa snake spotted by hikers on popular hiking trail

A photo of a rarely seen snake found wrapped around a small tree along the Clackamas River Trail is creating quite a stir online. Biologists identified the snake as a rubber boa. Rubber boas are native to the Pacific Northwest and part of our natural ecosystem. They are nonvenomous. In a Facebook post,Gretchen Brauer-Rieke described Thursday's encounter. "Rubber boa spotted along the Clackamas River Trail yesterday," Brauer-Rieke wrote.

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