I'm a commercial collector and even I know things have to
be protected but not blanket protection of every species in
every state. The problem is that law enforcement sees
what they think are large quantities of animals going out of
their state and they want to stop it. Allowing one of a species to be collect is as stupid as allowing 10,000 to be collected.
They can't seem to come up with something reasonable...and not
two of each. You don't just protect something just for the sake of protection. That's the way things are going....from state to state they have to have something protected because it seems to be the thing to do.....everyone else is doing it....we should too. Its just another way of fueling the bureaucracy....more jobs
created and more money from the federal government.

I can go out and collect 10 - 100 Northern Red Salamanders in a night at certain times of the year and go back year after year and get that same numbers. The same thing with garter snakes. As long as you leave the habitat alone you can collect the overflow. Sure; species like Box Turtles and Bog Turtles need protection but not completely off limits.

I keep making this point: One thing F&G and F&W don't realize or
don't want to realize is that once a species makes it into
the hands of breeders that species is bred to the point that
there are so many of them no body want's them. The commercial collector has his place too. I don't want to collect out and
area....I want to go back year after year.

More later.

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