Also some good ideas worthy of exploration! None of this is meant to be offensive towards USARK btw. I think Andrew and his team, advisors, etc. are doing comendable work. I just think that there are way too may issues for the current organization to handle effectively, and I don't hear anyone debating that point. Plus, I think there are alot of untapped and under-utilized resources in the herp world that are willing to do much more than write some emails and make some phone calls (also important work!) when one of these national threats to our hobby raise their ugly heads. There is on-going work at regional, state and local levels that needs to be done, and it would be so much more effective if the folks at these levels had resources and work-sharing opportunities so they didn't have to re-invent the wheel, but instead learn from build on the success of others. It'd be a true learning organization; much more efficient and effective. It'd pay for us to learn from our enemies concerning effective organizations at all levels. After all, they are waging war on all fronts and at all levels. So far,, all we've been able to do is offer a defense at thenational level. Since the advent of USARK, that defense is much better than it has been in the past, but I fear not enough.

Mark
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• An Idea for Influencing local ordinances - EricWI, Tue Dec 14 22:31:35 2010
• RE: An Idea for Influencing local ordinances - mpollard, Wed Dec 15 14:18:02 2010
• RE: An Idea for Influencing local ordinances - aquick, Wed Dec 15 20:59:13 2010
• RE: An Idea for Influencing local ordinances - mpollard, Thu Dec 16 17:13:35 2010
• RE: An Idea for Influencing local ordinances - jscrick, Sun Dec 19 08:27:05 2010
• RE: An Idea for Influencing local ordinances - jscrick, Sun Dec 19 12:53:03 2010
• RE: An Idea for Influencing local ordinances - jscrick, Sun Dec 19 12:58:52 2010
• Watch out for sell outs! - OHI, Sun Dec 19 16:49:23 2010
• RE: Watch out for sell outs! - jscrick, Sun Dec 19 17:58:26 2010
• RE: Watch out for sell outs! - jscrick, Sun Dec 19 19:21:37 2010
• I can't support treason! - OHI, Sun Dec 19 23:04:23 2010
• RE: I can't support treason! - jscrick, Mon Dec 20 07:42:22 2010
• RE: I can't support treason! - wireptile, Mon Dec 20 10:56:34 2010
• RE: I can't support treason! - jscrick, Mon Dec 20 11:29:03 2010
• I am sure this is a malignant problem - OHI, Tue Dec 21 04:43:00 2010
• Systemic might be a better term... - jscrick, Tue Dec 21 13:16:28 2010