" Because I do not sit on this committee I will await their debate and subsequent report before making any final decisions on the legislation. "

Yes, and how much skewed data will the House Committee on Natural Resources be reviewing before issuing their "report " ?


I'm sure Pijac has the sense to point out that,

Most non-native species establish in areas where the decimation has already been done. Many of these areas had been radically altered beyond the point of restoration long before the invasive's. A major reason the invasive's were able to inhabit these places is because there was no or very little original habitat remaining to support the native wildlife. Invasive species that are better adapted generalist were able to survive where the more specialized native species had already been virtually if not fully eliminated.

That's one of the key elements that's " selectively " left out of the " scientific " reports. These guys have their own agenda and they like to paint a picture of a nasty foreign species invading a pristine ecosystem of natural plants and crystal clear water. When in fact the area their describing is a concrete desert with scattered patch's of trees and water laced with mercury and phosphorus compounds , shopping plazas , highways and polluted air.

If you want to use the everglades as an example out of the large number of invasive species that exist there, plants have probably done the most damage. Plants that were introduced by biologist along with the diversion of key water ways approved by the government for the sugar industry. Invasive's introduced by the pet trade didn't help but the everglades was well on it's way to being a radically altered toxic wasteland filled with invasive species a long time before.

Ernie Eison
WESTWOOD ACRES REPTILE FARM INC.

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