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Aaron
at Tue Jul 20 23:09:49 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Aaron ]
I've been told that USFWS teamed up with the Utah wildlife agency(not sure what the name is) in Operation Slither. They served my friend Richard Hoyer with a warrant for Rubber Boas, no other species were involved. At some point USFWS did drop out of the operation, at least as it pertained to my friend, and Utah's state agency took over. Maybe USFWS only got involved because other targets in the sting had endangered species and/or exotics, I don't know. Regardless, what i was told was that USFWS was involved at the begining and when the warrant was served all of his Rubber Boas were confiscated.
I am pretty sure the warrant was only for Southern Rubber Boas but they took all the Rubber Boas he had. In fact he had no Southerns at all. All of them were common Sierra, Rocky Mtn. and Coastal. He had permits for every single one of them and was eventually able to prove it in court. But they still killed over 60% of his boas... In fact, I think it was 60% were dead before the first trial and by the second trial 90% had died.
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RE: Wait a minute... - Aaron, Tue Jul 20 23:09:49 2010