Reading through your links, Jim, I came across this from the TNC Policy advisor for Florida:

"Prevention is our least expensive and most effective tool. Florida can get out in front of this potentially terrible problem before it’s too late. The Conservancy is very concerned, and we’re working hard for a solution.

The conversation needs to stay balanced, rational and in touch with reality – meaning that people can’t own everything; neither can policies ban everything."

That to me is a factual statement (and literally already true). The days of having it all our own way are now gone. But US Ark and the herping community have been about as effective as we could hope at moderating the excesses and keeping the more extreme ideas from becoming public policy. If you look at those links, and see the kinds of things they were saying a few years ago versus now, you see a change- more consideration being given to the private sector. I think everyone, on all sides, are getting an education here....Excepting HSUS and PETA-can't educate those guys.
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

Breeder of:
Green Tree Pythons
Jungle Carpet Pythons
Pastel, Pinstripe, FIRE, Piebald, Clown, Lavender Albino, Leucistic, and Spider Ball Pythons
Striped Colombian Boa Constrictors
Kenyan, Rufescens, and Conicus Sand Boas
Red Phase Western Hognose Snakes
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Albino Western Hognose Snakes
Locality Trans-Pecos Mexican Hognose Snakes
Southern Hognose Snakes
Eastern Hognose Snakes
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Hypo Checkered Garter Snakes
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Stillwater Hypo Bullsnakes
Patternless Bullsnakes
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Hypo Desert Kingsnakes
Mexican Black Kingsnakes
Desert Phase, Striped Desert, Newport, and Coastal California Kingsnakes
Locality Mexican Milksnakes
Spotted Mexican Milksnakes
Tangerine Mexican Milksnakes
Locality Alterna
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Mexican Baird's Ratsnakes
Cape Housesnakes
Tangerine Albino African Fat -Tailed Geckos
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