He didn’t get the terminology wrong, just the concept. Snakes don’t den up together at this time of year. No point in looking for a bunch of them together somewhere...because they aren’t.
Twice when building hiways that i know of a dozer ripped open a snake den. Once on hiway 380 in the Malaphi near Carrizozo NM.
And once while widening I-10 in southwest NM near the AZ state line. that one they drove up to the hole an dropped Dynamite into it.
