Tony, this is kinda getting back to our arguements from years past. I have aknowledged that, but the locality animals are now more than ever an important "spice" in the soup. Keeping locality lines going is important. Continual influx or gene flow sounds good, but I look through my collection now and see how morphs have taken over.....not good. I still have locality GA easterns, my MONSTER ISLAND milks but thats about it. In fact I didnt make available my milks this year because even WITH f1 MORPHS I couldnt interest enough people last year to move more than a few animals. In many ways what I have found maybe one of the last "new" localities out there, but with no locality breeders they arent "worth" working with to most folks. I suggest everyone take a good,long look at the classifieds section with this thought in mind. I know its not the hobby we started with, the question should be is this the way we all want it to go? Its strange that some are NOW looking for locale FL kings....GA easterns are going for $150ea not $5ea. About 5 years ago I got on the milk forum and encouraged people to put aside a small space in their collection for a STRANGE species....say an indonesian tree snake,etc... That went over like a lead balloon. It wouldnt be a bad idea to try and have some UNMORPHED NA locality animals better represented in the hobby....but at who's expense? I remember finding a NICE Calvert co. cornsnake and keeping it for years trying to find a locality match.....I have to think this has got to be as interesting as an albino at this point....there are fewer of them in the WORLD.

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