Amen brother! A quote from an article about the Burmese invasion “The economic toll from damage by invasive species—and the costs of trying to control them—is enormous: U.S. $137 billion a year, according to a 1999 Cornell University study.” There is a slice of 137 billion dollar pie at stake. I am suspicious of those greedy money grubbing people who would do ANYTHING for the sake of a few dollars. Deliberately manufacturing this problem for their own benefit is straight out of the play book. We have a lot at stake and they don’t care one bit for the reptile hobby, of any hobby but the love of money hobby/vocation. What are these politicians and scientists actually doing to preserve the habitat of Florida indigo snakes? Gopher tortoise? Really, what? When they changed the definition of ‘wetlands” to mean it had to have a foot of water year-round, we lost them ALL!!! There is nothing but development in the future of every foot of Florida that is not presently under a foot of water, and then they will fill in the most desirable of those lands too. (the everglades averages about 6" deep, not even classified as wetlands))

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