Story: This snake is one of Adam Shoalts's most noteworthy discoveries. He found it in 2020 while on a solo expedition deep into North America's largest wetland, the vast Hudson Bay Lowlands. It was an unexpected find, as this was hundreds of kilometres outside the snake's known range. No previous records of red-sided garter snakes in the Hudson Bay Lowlands are known to exist. However, even today the Lowlands remain little explored, and thus new records of flora and fauna from the area are not uncommon. The area's remoteness, difficulty of terrain, and intensity of mosquitoes and blackflies, keep most people away.