I'm all for conservation. Have been all my life. I was the only lonely voice ing about the indiscriminate killing of Snakes and Turtles way back when, before it was "Cool" to give a whit about them. Just ask anyone that's known me since the 1960's.

Actually, what the TP&W has done somehow is avoid sub-specific designations to make selling and owning most U.S. species an issue. This is contrary to what I believe they promised at the time regulations were put in place.

As the law now reads, you have to have a commercial permit to sell California Kingsnakes in Texas. That means reporting in and out, as well as possibly buying a Hunting License. Lampropeltis getulus is as specific as they get. Same with any genus in it's entirety if represented by any subspecies here in Texas.

The way I understand it, you are not allowed to possess more than 6 T. carolina of any subspecies in total. This also means you are not allowed to sell any Eastern Box Turtles, even if from the Carolinas, here in Texas permit or not.

They have done quite a bit to impede our hobby. And they wonder why hobbyists go into all these "invasive" "harmful" unnatural morphs, hybrids, and imports. It is a problem of their own making. The Law of Unintended Consequences, I suppose. Them and their short-sighted, narrow-minded thinking...create a problem...make a LAW to solve said problem...thereby creating a new problem requiring a new law to solve that problem...and so on and so on. We've got to keep the Lawyers in business. After all, we are a Nation of Laws...a very litigious society, indeed.

jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

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