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Coach
at Wed Feb 17 20:09:14 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Coach ]
I can tell you why we should care. The gov. is taking away our freedoms one at a time. You see what they did to us in Texas. Florida has a problem with ferrel pythons in the everglades. This is a Florida problem which the gov is making all of our problem. This problem will not spread out of Fla because of habitat fragmentation alone. Not to mention climate and other factors. The same reason large native snakes in Fla. are on the decline. Indigos and eastern diamonbacks need large home ranges and in a fragmented enviornment the large snakes are killed when they cross paths with people or when they try to cross roadways. The pythons will not spread out of Florida. So this is a Florida problem. Yet the gov wants to stop importation of burmese pythons and 8 other large snakes including boas , not only in Fla. but the whole country. This would be a Federal law making transporting any of these 9 large snakes across any state line a violation of the Lacey Act, a Federal offense. Now many of us sell snakes on the internet and ship snakes around the country. This will put alot of breeders and dealers out of business.
Now... why should you care? Because the gov will eventually get around to banning something you care about. The Gov likes to divide and conquer. This is why we all need to stick together.
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RE: USF&W to add "Big 9" to Lacey Act - Coach, Wed Feb 17 20:09:14 2010