Show 211 a bay It was the same site later chosen by U J Yenner where the remnants of his old stone house still stand in the nature of wild life on the island since the visits of Fremont and Stansbury By the mid 1870’s there were large numbers of snakes mice and lizards found there It was asserted that "there was a snake in every bush” the reptiles had become so numerous It is not known how the first snakes had come to the island none had been sighted there by early explorers Stansbury made special note of the fact that he had seen only two snakes during his whole lake survey— neither evidently The Millers as well as the YTenner family on Fremont Island (who moved to the island in 1885 found the snakes extremely An interesting change had occured of two varieties whip and blow Neither species is poisonous but snakes are generally disannoying The snakes were liked especially when they make their appearance in beds and The last fire that swept Fremont Island under cabin floors killed most of the snakes This occured in 1940 and Charles Stoddard who had sheep on the island at that time states that he found "lots of dead snakes that had been killed by the fire There were many snakes on the island before that time"® Vhen the writer visited the island in 1944 he saw no wild life of any kind except a few small lizards 8 Charles Stoddard "Facts About Fremont Island" 3 |