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CSRAJim
at Fri May 29 17:00:16 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by CSRAJim ]
Howard,
Hey man, that's a novel approach...Offer a reward for local collectors to go and collect them...I wonder how difficult (and how long time wise) it will be for the government to grant a "permit" to collect on Federal lands and a World Heritage Site...
Perhaps those "critter" collectors that I see on Animal Planet that are called to capture Alligators (and release later) from the pools and canals of the residential neighborhoods & retirement communities already have "permits" to collect...The habitat destruction is (and continues to be) the most destructive anthropologic force (seen any aerial photos over the last 30 years?) in the local area and it is also a "permitted" activity by the local and state government...
This continued activity does far more destruction to the local flora & fuana that the Burmese Python will...Native predators will keep the population in check and the species will eventually "blend-in" to the local fuana.
We'll see what happens as S-373 is just as bad as HR-669...Any piece of legislation that is passed will only be an addition to existing legislation that resulted in regulation...None of the regulations that are passed "solve the problem" and only result in more tax dollars to fund the study(s) that creates a "management program" which has to be "staffed" which means hiring additional employees, pay their salaries & benefits pacakages, etc, etc, etc...
Guam is an ISLAND and the Brown Tree Snake has been a problem there since the 1950's (I think) and it remains a "poster child" for the continuation of tax payer funds down the bureaucratic hole of no solution. So let's see, after how many years (and only God knows how much money) have they been working on this without a solution?
To put this in perspective, the Everglades National Park (ENP) is some 1.4 million acres (approximately). An acre = 1/640 square miles so the ENP equals 2,187.5 square miles...Guam is only 200 square miles (approximately). And that means a lot of potential tax payer money for the local economy over how many decades? After all, if the problem is solved then there is no reason for Congress to appropriate money to the agency for that problem.
Sorry about my cynicism here...
Later,
Jim.
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RE: Alert: Python Ban - S373 - CSRAJim, Fri May 29 17:00:16 2009