What I see is that South Florida is plagued by invasives, not just burms but many many species of herps from the humble anoles to the caimans, boas, burms and so on. Now if these animals can so easily expand to exist elsewhere then why don't they? They have all been available to the public for decades and releases or escapes have been happening from coast to coast since they have been available. But they have only established sustaining populations in areas of South Florida.



It seems simple to me, this is a real problem in South Florida that needs attention and action. But it is not a national issue by any standard of reality and interstate measure will not fix anything while impacting the rights responsible herpers everywhere.
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• You Need Experimental Data! - marcp, Fri Mar 7 20:30:35 2008
• RE: You Need Experimental Data! - OHI, Sat Mar 8 00:51:50 2008
• You don't need to do an experiment - MadAxeMan, Sat Mar 8 07:32:53 2008
• RE: You don't need to do an experiment - marcp, Sat Mar 8 08:12:58 2008
• RE: You don't need to do an experiment - natsamjosh, Sat Mar 8 09:00:24 2008
• RE: You don't need to do an experiment - marcp, Sat Mar 8 20:24:51 2008
• RE: You don't need to do an experiment - wstreps, Sun Mar 9 09:30:26 2008
• Can we organize better? - marcp, Sun Mar 9 11:01:12 2008
• RE: You don't need to do an experiment - lbenton, Tue Mar 11 13:29:12 2008
• This is NOT about science! - natsamjosh, Sat Mar 8 08:04:13 2008
• RE: This is NOT about science! - silentchaos, Sat Mar 8 14:31:47 2008
• RE: This is NOT about science! - natsamjosh, Mon Mar 10 08:37:30 2008
• RE: You Need Experimental Data! - lbenton, Tue Mar 11 13:38:37 2008