"Rattlesnakes as Long as Gators" at Cape Canaveral...in 1960

Off to a good start with Jon Cowart, the Arez I-X deputy mission manager on the ecology of Cape Canaveral.

On a related note...Right around 1960, Jay Barbree of NBC, the only reporter
to cover every spaceflight from Sputnik onward, found the Cape Canaveral of 1960 a place
where "bear-shared the natural habitat with alligator and deer, and
Indians buried their dead on sacred mounds."

"...taming the Cape was tougher than expected. It wasn't only the
persistent mosquitos but rattlesnakes -rattlesnakes as long as
gators-that had driven most of the early pioneers away." -"Live from
Cape Canaveral"