and I have as a matter of fact.



Here's the jest of it. TP&W didn't want to deal with us, they wanted to sweep us under the rug as evidenced by their inability to check on anyone deep in private ranches. That would be a logistical nightmare for them. So they Told Mr Hilderbran that they needed this law, and paid him to get it passed which he had to do via rider because we garnered the support to squash the conventional method of passing a law.



Unfortunately for TP&W they passed a law that they can barely enforce. We are not going away and they are forced to deal with us. So they hope and pray they can actually see someone picking up a snake and write a ticket. Until then they hide in the bushes and write traffic tickets. Mean while commercial collectors and poachers are free to roam large tracts of private land undetected and undisturbed.



They want to harass the hobbyists yet it is not against any law to drive up and down the highway in a legal manner. It's not against the law to collect insects, and according to David Sinclair it's not against the law to collect DOR (dead) reptiles and amphibians from public roads and right of ways.



Uh, we are not going away. We are tax payers, and we are sportsmen. They will deal with us until they make it right.



Contrary to what Richard observed recently, we HAVE cut way back on the antagonistic remarks save for a few that we absolutely can not control.
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