I guess that settles it ? I'm assuming that it wasn't one of Skip Snows Radio controlled specimens? While there was plenty of circumstantial type evidence, it's never a good idea to blindly except anything as fact until proven . And there's still many valid un answered questions.

My issue was not whether the burms were or weren't there, but with the hype and speculative impacts that may be used against the easiest target, private collectors and the industry.

Talk about killing giant lizards and pythons to save endangered species and it's easy to get both political ,financial and public support, even if it's just speculation. Say you want to stop a housing development that could bring hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions into an area for the same reasons and no one listens, even if you can prove it a hundred times over.

Indiscriminate habitat destruction is far and away Florida's main environmental problem .It not only effects native wildlife but everybody's life. The giant land developers pump huge amounts cash into the state and tear it apart , massive industrial plants poison everything around them while funding political rallies . They say invasions are the number two threat but they receive 100 times the press and attention that the far and away number 1 threat does.


How bad the burms' impact in the Everglades may turn out be will probably not match the negative effect they have on the rest of the state. Some say burms were first sighted in the Glades tens years ago, and they're just now really starting to make the papers--I wonder how long it will be before scenes like the one in this pic. start making news. Ernie Eison

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