I went to an area on the South Side of Des Moines where I had been on a field herping trip about two years ago in this same spot and had found 20 T. Radix in about 2 to 3 hours. Heading back there today, I found one Storeria Dekayi only. The park service has gone through and cleaned up that whole area and now the habitat has been taken away. It really bums me out because the area they cleaned up is an area not used in the park. It was an old section of rail road that they've cleaned up to make it look more pleasing to humans but in turn they have destroyed habitat. I am not tree hugger, mind you, but I think that is senseless. Changing an area's landscape simply for human asthetics is a poor stewardship of our land in my opinion. And the hard truth is now, where there was a little pocket of flourishing T. Radix, there is none...but at least the unused side of the park looks pleasing to the eye.