Florida has been bombed with everything. One thing that's seldom talked about is feral pigs . The state is saturated with them. The list can go on and on but what's the difference ? The natural condition of the environment has been forever altered and will never return. The fragments of the ecology that remain will be forced to evolve around unnatural intervention. It's been happening that way nearly 150 years since the first population of brown anoles was recorded. Probably well before that. In many cases "invasive species" are not displacing anything what they are in fact doing is reestablishing nature to areas where it has already been displaced. Others times invasive's simply assimilate into the current system. The proof is all over my property. I witness it everyday.



There's a group here in Florida called the WATER RESOURCES ADVISORY COMMISSION. The goal is to restore the everglades / clean it up. Put it back the way it was. What they are proposing is that they can recreate evolution thru water management , invasive species removal etc. The state doesn't believe in evolution it's not legal to teach it in the class room but the same scientist that are being called frauds on one hand by the state are being called experts on the other. You really have to see these guys in action to understand just how lost they are. Their feel good objectives are not sound in principle and some are absolutely based on objectives that fall out side the "mission statement ".



What we are dealing with are academics and political business men. These guys earn their PhD's in the classroom it's all done on paper not via real life. Then they go out in the field and try to apply their classroom knowledge to life. The problem is they don't know about real life so they fall back on what they understand. Hypothesis, theory's etc. The stuff that got them passing grades in school. Their field research gets reduced to a science project conducted by individuals who do not have a working knowledge of the subject. They look for textbook answers in constantly changing equations.The highly flawed conclusions are then passed on to people who know even less for a final evaluation. The USGS map is a perfect example of how the system works. A major problem is academics are very resistant to being proven wrong and the people who enlist them are looking for validation. In these situations known facts take a back seat to theory.



Ernie Eison

westwoodreptiles.com

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