"My question though is this, why aren't you in favor of it? Is it because you do not believe measures to restrict interstate transport will have any effect on wild populations, or because you don't want the lawmakers overstepping their bounds? I suppose another way to ask this is, would you be supportive of the USFWS listing these animals as injurious (same effect, different means)?"

This touches on another question I find interesting. For me the biggest flaw in the proposed legislation was that the pythons where already in the one place they could survive so I didn't see any possible benefit for trading in freedom. I think the research this winter will put the 1/3 US map to rest for good. Will all agree now that it’s a Florida only problem?

But what IF it had been just a little colder and the python kill line got pushed from just north of the Glades all the way to the bottom? What if that happens next January? What IF we had a clean slate and there where no longer any Burmese pythons in the Everglades? Then there actually might be some benefit to restricting them in Florida.

But wait, they already are restricted in Florida so hypothetical problem solved ... I mean really, how many people are buying Burmese pythons with the current Florida license requirements? I bet none of the few doing it legally would release any much less the numbers needed to start a new population. Just require any importers to bag the 900 they are holding for shipping out of state in Kevlar in case of evacuation and we are all set, lol.

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