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jeffb
at Thu Apr 2 15:42:21 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jeffb ]
Re-read it. This is what it will require to get a species on the "preliminary" "white" list. They won't just add hundreds/thousands of species to that list. That's just not the way this is going to work.
(B) INFORMATION REQUIRED- Any proposal under this paragraph must include sufficient scientific and commercial information to allow the Secretary to evaluate whether the proposed nonnative wildlife species is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to other animal species’ or human health.
In Texas a few years ago the state proposed a "white list" of approved species for commercial sale. They got it approved then, later, they came back and "snuck" in a black list that had EVERY
reptile and non-game mammal not on the white list on it. They even black listed non-native corn snakes and pet mice accidentally. No one in Texas keeps or commercializes any Cotton Rats in Texas and yet the state went out of their way to include them and every other rodent on the black list.
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RE: FED HEARING APRIL 23 ON NONNATIVE BAN - jeffb, Thu Apr 2 15:42:21 2009