Brad, what I've noticed is that land set aside for commercial hunting and fishing interests is the norm. Not much value/consideration given to land set aside just because some animal needs habitat to avoid extinction and that animal has no commercial value.



An example -- Everybody is on the bandwagon for saving the Box Turtles nowadays. Consider this -- there would never have been a "pet" Box Turtle market had the Feds not initiated the 4" Rule.



There has been a lot of environmental talk lately to the effect of "watch where you tread", meaning there are far reaching ramifications to everything Man does to the environment. An epiphany?



Example -- Here in South Texas Rattlesnakes, Bullsnakes, and other large apex serpent populations have been diminished to the point that the varmints they run a check on are an epidemic. I personally believe that may have something to do with the Box Turtles demise.



The "leave it to the experts/authorities" mentality has a lot to do with all this, IMHO. We've outsourced/delegated our God given obligation to stewardship of our Natural Resources to ineptness, corruption, and malaise.



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