That's a new one. I grew up wandering the ranch lands of south texas as a kid and never heard of turtles being referred to "nuissance turtles". Rattlesnakes yes, water moccasins yes alligators yes. I might buy the texas tortoise being called a pest(although I never heard that in tx.) for digging holes but to be honest with you there are a lot more rabbit and badger holes out there than there are tortoise holes and come too think of it I'm not one hundred percent sure the texas toroises actually dig there own holes or if they just use abandoned rabbit holes as I don't ever remember ever seeing what I now recognize as gopher tortoise holes here in fl as a kid in tx. and I spent ALL my free time in the brush herping hunting or fishing. For God's sake I've even heard of ranchers who don't like mesquite trees because they think they suck up all the ground water. I've heard ranchers accuse prickly pears of being a pest although considering I spent more time with their cows than they did I can tell you prickly pears get a bad rap their cows love them and they don't hurt them as much as ranchers think they do. But Nuissance turtles that's a new one on me.

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