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See link. It's a paper I found looking for the annual bag limits of reptiles and amphibians on NMGF's website (for my Plan B of course).

RP
Recovery and Conservation Document

It's very interesting that this paper's authors seemed to take it as a "given" that severe restrictions on alterna collecting would cause adverse economic impacts on several west Texas communities.

Brad Chambers

If only Painter, et al, had paid attention to the rest of what I wrote when the cited my "anecdotal" obserservations.

Where I said that basically, a few snake hunters per year might come to NM, get skunked, and then head for Val Verde County where they might actually find a snake.

And that there was no real point in protecting this species in NM.

Troy

I don't get it either. If you read page 8 of this document, they are conceding that "much of the known habitat of gray-banded kingsnake occurs within CCNP (Carlsbad Caverns National Park) and Guadalupe Mountains National Park and is therefore unavailable for resource extraction". There, resource extraction was referring to oil and gas extraction, livestock grazing, or silviculture, but presumably it applies to the known free-ranging populations of alterna as well. They did the same thing with triaspis on the extreme southwestern corner of New Mexico, but over there, the populations are not otherwise protected from collection by national park sytems. All I can say is crap-o-la, baby.

R