Locality is a term that should be reserved pretty much for those who catch or at least possess the wc animals. We can mostly agree that its a NA thing. You catch pales so obviously you know the difference as I do with Easterns or Coastals. I think its out of respect to each other that we maintain these lines.



Example: if you accept the time-line theory then you breed 1990s coastals and I find and breed 2000s...and in 2010 someone breeds these together and passes them off as LOCALITY, you lose even the timeline and taint both timelines as much as some look at ssp..



And this doesnt even consider selective breeding which we all do. While I cringe at the idea of someone tainting my MONSTER ISLAND line, I know it will happen. So I will make sure "pure" animals are available as long as I can then pass them along to someone who would do the same. Are these animals "worth more"?? If I will likely have to GIVE my breeders away at some point to insure their integrity how can they be??



I still fall back on digital pics eliminating the "locality" mandate. But I think its also time we accept more variability within these outdated lines to be progressive rather than regressive. While I long for the days where Coastals were easy to come by and variable, I would never assume inbreeding a line for 20 years would be true to any locality.

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