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Isn't it great that TPW just increased the value of all your local alterna that use to be $50-$100 now the new price could be back up to $500 each. I feel bad for all you Texans getting the short end of the stick, but I always thought it was kind of strange to go to Texas and spend $2000-$3000 for a week or two
and maybe come home with a male alterna maybe not so good for the breeding pool that maybe was worth $100 bucks if that.
I could have stayed at home and bought 20 or 30 alterna for one trip out to alterna land in west Texas. Everybody that goes to west Texas goes for the hunt and the friend ship of other collectors, nobody really has to go anymore. Really the genetics of pure local are all over the the country for people to get,its all about the respect of how hard it is and how many nights you must pay to get one. If your going to have alterna as pets you must respect them for how much of a pain in the a$$
they can be to collect and raise.
I think as a public service employee myself I would have a hard time turning away business from a already depressed area. So if I was a TPW employee with Texas I would kind of question why this law went into effect in the first place. With the loss of
1. revenue from liscense
2. Business from snake tourism $$$$$$$$$
Last year when I was in Sanderson it looked light a ghost town.
I hope Roy can hold on.
I for one if I where a TPW employee would try to help out my fellow Texans trying to make it in West Texas by trying to hunt for snake hunters in sweetwater Texas during the day light hours (thats a hint).
I hope I wasn't going off the deep end here but I think I would have a really hard time enforcing this bad law if I worked for TPW knowing that local people that I would have to live with and go to church with and buy from would loose out. I know what I would do if I worked for TPW I would help my friends and family that lived in those countys use there natural resources for there benefit.
KC

I’m still gonna miss drinking 12 cups of coffee per day one week out of the year and sitting on the porch at wild horse watching the sun come up with a glass of red in my hand. I'm getting old anyway and this is the first year I will need reading glasses so it came at a good time. The good old days. Still hope this thing turns around somehow.

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