Credit: Saskia Keller, National Wildlife Health Center.

Assuming that this outbreak is will die out on its own after this large mortality event this year, you decide to do nothing further to try to control the disease. Advance your ticks by 12 weeks/ticks and subtract two charisma points for increasingly negative public perceptions of your work. During the winter, road mortality declines, followed by a big spike in early spring. At this point, your team is under intense pressure to conserve Florida’s snakes. What do you do?