I was reading an article today about gopher tortoises. It was from 2006, and it was telling of a tire company in North Port, FL that was buying land near a patch of woods, and how much they had to pay for the right to bulldoze the gopher tortoises living there. They are on the endangered list and the vulnerable list, you can't collect them, yet people can bulldoze over them if they donate some money to pay for land for more gophers, even if gophers aren't even living there. It seems to me that I'm pretty lucky I wasn't living there, because I would have either had posession of some very, very illegal animals, or I would have gone to jail or prison for doing something about it. What are everyone's thoughts about this situation?
Thanks, Cliff
