1) if you know anyone in Texas, anywhere, whether or not they have a personal stake in this, ask them to contact their representatives. Your mother's cousins brother's ex-wife lives in Orange, ask them to contact their rep. You correspond with a deer hunter in South Texas who thinks that the "only good snake is a dead snake" ask them to contact their representative.



2) Write your letters to as many as possible. Make it a general letter. State how there are other ways to handle this problem (commercialization, the stated reason behind this) rather than closing highways to hobbyists. Describe how your state handles this issue. Go ahead and stress the loss of revenue from tourism. Be vague about the region you're interested in herping if its a representative from an urban area. Be specific to those you actually intend to visit (like SoTX or W TX)



3) If you have ever contributed to "citizen science" by road-cruising, describe how this knowledge has been used, and how by closing this off in TX (no road-cruising), TX is limiting its potential ability to gather knowledge.



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