just a couple of notes on organization and TP&W
First on the organization. It's coming very soon, details are being hammered out and new PUBLIC Web site and PUBLIC forum will forthcoming. Watch for details.
I read with interest the need to work WITH TP&W. Of course those comments are spot on but the irony is that the Herp Societies have been working with TP&W on many issues yet on this big one TP&W went right behind our backs without soliciting any input from our Herp societies.
I am trying to get certain individuals from TP&W at the round table for discussion and possible fixes. If we are not successful in getting them to sit down with us, or listen to proposed solutions through our Legislators, then we will have another course of action.
I won't go into detail on that right here or now, but the timing seems to be perfect for what I have in mind.
We still have many courses of action, and I see many good ideas being tossed around here and on the other forum. I also see not so good ideas and a lot of emotion. We need to hold the emotion in check because ranting and cursing will not achieve the desired effect. Neither will blatantly ignoring this "unjust and unfounded" law achieve the desired effect.
The was a bombshell that got dropped on us. Devastating in the short term. Pick-up the pieces and turn this negative into a positive. Make this into the best thing that ever happened to us in the long term. Use this as a stepping stone for a united and actionable organization. The way we conduct ourselves in the coming months will be telling and will dictate our success or failure. I will not accept failure.
)and turn this negative into a positive. It's actually becoming a catalyst, making some things happen which should have happened a long time ago. The emotional reactions are understandable-after all, they're attacking us on a level that is very close to the core. Many of us are HERPERS, before we're anything else! And now, evidently, we're criminals who care nothing for the conservation of the animals we love.
