What have you heard?



ticket written for moving a turtle off the road.



A law enforcement guy (Sinclair) does not have the authority to tell someone what the law "really" means (but that hasn't stopped them from trying, in TX and other states). Either they enforce the law as written or they don't.



What Sinclair can do is put out a policy saying they will not enforce the law in the case of X, where "X" is "kid moving a turtle off the road," "picking up DORs," etc.



My (way out of date) site has the copies of the emails from before the road ban, showing that the TPWD LE guys would not consider road cruising/herping to be "hunting from the road."



We need something similar now, to say they won't consider moving an animal without collecting, or picking up DORs, as running counter to the intent of the road ban and that they won't go after folks doing so.
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Chris McMartin

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I'm Not a Herpetologist, but I Play One on the Internet

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