Copperhead

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You can definitely do that.

If you already have tongs I'd use them to put the snake in an empty trash can or icechest and take it to the nearest wild area. Just make sure it can't reach the lid or you can get a tight seal because snakes can get out of anything.

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Also be sure to get video of the entire process to share with all of us....you know, for educational purposes

Growing up on about 4 acres in Tomball (plus a lot of woods surrounding belonging to the neighbors) we saw/caught a lot of snakes; mainly ratsnakes, lots of hognoses, copperheads, some cottonmouths. One day we found a snake we couldn't quite identify at the time. Over the course of a couple of days, my dad got a call from a friend of a friend. Turns out he was a herpetologist/zoologist at the Houston Zoo and knew what the snake was based off the description he had received. He was putting together a book on local snakes and had figured out we had a buttermilk racer in our possession. Beautiful snake with a nasty temper, struck at anything that moved. He was mainly green with white specks sporadically located throughout his body. Long story short had an assistant come and pick up the snake so he could photograph it and include it in his book, in turn this young snake obsessed boy got a backstage tour of the Houston Zoo reptile house.

He returned the snake to us after he was done with it and in turn we let it go again. As a kid I wanted to keep him regardless of the fact that I really couldn't handle him, but they are apparently not good captive snakes at all, refused to eat.

Cool story bra, I know.... tried to find pics, but couldn't.

Looked something like this, I seem to remember it being a little bit brighter green. This was many years ago however.

I used to have an Eastern Hognose. I had to freeze amphibians to feed it. Frozen bullfrog tadpoles did the trick. I eventually changed him to toad scented frozen mice. I think the toad I had hated me every week or so.

Just do not question the length of her snake

Given the development of the Aggie cloning program and genetic splicing, a case of Natty Light and a bag of Funyons should get you anything maroon you want.