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

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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

Spider Western Hognose Snakes

Albino Western Hognose Snakes

Locality Trans-Pecos Mexican Hognose Snakes

Southern Hognose Snakes

Eastern Hognose Snakes

Tricolor Hognose Snakes

Hypo Checkered Garter Snakes

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Stillwater Hypo Bullsnakes

Patternless Bullsnakes

S. GA Eastern Kingsnakes

Locality Desert Kingsnakes

Albino Desert Kingsnakes

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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