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I don't know if I can make it. I think it starts on 3-8-10. If if started on 3-1-10 I would go for sure. I am on Spring Break the first week of March. Yes, I am an old geiser going to college. I got laid off in July of last year, so I am getting an education so I can do a career change. I really wanted to hunt some Burms. It's fun to get out like that, even if you don't catch one. We should enjoy nature while we can. The way Florida is going, it is going to be cement and asphault from one end to the other. So who is going to hunt Burms?

What I can't understand is why is there a season at all if burmese pythons present such a problem for recovery of the everglades? And, why is a $26 management fee and a hunting permit required? Are they protected during the off season? What would happen if one were to kill a burmese python after April?

>>What I can't understand is why is there a season at all if burmese pythons present such a problem for recovery of the everglades? And, why is a $26 management fee and a hunting permit required? Are they protected during the off season? What would happen if one were to kill a burmese python after April?
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

Breeder of:
Green Tree Pythons
Jungle Carpet Pythons
Pastel, Pinstripe, FIRE, Piebald, Clown, Lavender Albino, Leucistic, and Spider Ball Pythons
Striped Colombian Boa Constrictors
Kenyan, Rufescens, and Conicus Sand Boas
Red Phase Western Hognose Snakes
Spider Western Hognose Snakes
Albino Western Hognose Snakes
Locality Trans-Pecos Mexican Hognose Snakes
Southern Hognose Snakes
Eastern Hognose Snakes
Tricolor Hognose Snakes
Hypo Checkered Garter Snakes
Eastern Blackneck Garter Snakes
Stillwater Hypo Bullsnakes
Patternless Bullsnakes
S. GA Eastern Kingsnakes
Locality Desert Kingsnakes
Albino Desert Kingsnakes
Hypo Desert Kingsnakes
Mexican Black Kingsnakes
Desert Phase, Striped Desert, Newport, and Coastal California Kingsnakes
Locality Mexican Milksnakes
Spotted Mexican Milksnakes
Tangerine Mexican Milksnakes
Locality Alterna
Abbott Okeetee Cornsnakes
Mexican Baird's Ratsnakes
Cape Housesnakes
Tangerine Albino African Fat -Tailed Geckos
Locality Spotted Turtles

You could be cited.

What a pointless exercise this is, huh? They act as if they're trying to preserve the burms as a sport hunting species. No wonder some people think government can't be trusted to boil water!
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

Breeder of:
Green Tree Pythons
Jungle Carpet Pythons
Pastel, Pinstripe, FIRE, Piebald, Clown, Lavender Albino, Leucistic, and Spider Ball Pythons
Striped Colombian Boa Constrictors
Kenyan, Rufescens, and Conicus Sand Boas
Red Phase Western Hognose Snakes
Spider Western Hognose Snakes
Albino Western Hognose Snakes
Locality Trans-Pecos Mexican Hognose Snakes
Southern Hognose Snakes
Eastern Hognose Snakes
Tricolor Hognose Snakes
Hypo Checkered Garter Snakes
Eastern Blackneck Garter Snakes
Stillwater Hypo Bullsnakes
Patternless Bullsnakes
S. GA Eastern Kingsnakes
Locality Desert Kingsnakes
Albino Desert Kingsnakes
Hypo Desert Kingsnakes
Mexican Black Kingsnakes
Desert Phase, Striped Desert, Newport, and Coastal California Kingsnakes
Locality Mexican Milksnakes
Spotted Mexican Milksnakes
Tangerine Mexican Milksnakes
Locality Alterna
Abbott Okeetee Cornsnakes
Mexican Baird's Ratsnakes
Cape Housesnakes
Tangerine Albino African Fat -Tailed Geckos
Locality Spotted Turtles

You could be cited.

What a pointless exercise this is. No wonder some folks think government can't be trusted to boil water!
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

Breeder of:
Green Tree Pythons
Jungle Carpet Pythons
Pastel, Pinstripe, FIRE, Piebald, Clown, Lavender Albino, Leucistic, and Spider Ball Pythons
Striped Colombian Boa Constrictors
Kenyan, Rufescens, and Conicus Sand Boas
Red Phase Western Hognose Snakes
Spider Western Hognose Snakes
Albino Western Hognose Snakes
Locality Trans-Pecos Mexican Hognose Snakes
Southern Hognose Snakes
Eastern Hognose Snakes
Tricolor Hognose Snakes
Hypo Checkered Garter Snakes
Eastern Blackneck Garter Snakes
Stillwater Hypo Bullsnakes
Patternless Bullsnakes
S. GA Eastern Kingsnakes
Locality Desert Kingsnakes
Albino Desert Kingsnakes
Hypo Desert Kingsnakes
Mexican Black Kingsnakes
Desert Phase, Striped Desert, Newport, and Coastal California Kingsnakes
Locality Mexican Milksnakes
Spotted Mexican Milksnakes
Tangerine Mexican Milksnakes
Locality Alterna
Abbott Okeetee Cornsnakes
Mexican Baird's Ratsnakes
Cape Housesnakes
Tangerine Albino African Fat -Tailed Geckos
Locality Spotted Turtles

When it isn't humting season the burms are protected, you can be prosecuted for removing one.

Or is it just that they want to have seasons when they don't have to staff game wardens expecting armed hunters of any kind? That is, times when anyone found hunting for anything can be assumed a poacher? Seems like if it is such a big problem they should do their part and make it a special year round season.

Anything living in the ENP is protected, native or not, including plants.

Just to be clear, this season does NOT include Everglades National Park-that remains a "python sanctuary"
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

Breeder of:
Green Tree Pythons
Jungle Carpet Pythons
Pastel, Pinstripe, FIRE, Piebald, Clown, Lavender Albino, Leucistic, and Spider Ball Pythons
Striped Colombian Boa Constrictors
Kenyan, Rufescens, and Conicus Sand Boas
Red Phase Western Hognose Snakes
Spider Western Hognose Snakes
Albino Western Hognose Snakes
Locality Trans-Pecos Mexican Hognose Snakes
Southern Hognose Snakes
Eastern Hognose Snakes
Tricolor Hognose Snakes
Hypo Checkered Garter Snakes
Eastern Blackneck Garter Snakes
Stillwater Hypo Bullsnakes
Patternless Bullsnakes
S. GA Eastern Kingsnakes
Locality Desert Kingsnakes
Albino Desert Kingsnakes
Hypo Desert Kingsnakes
Mexican Black Kingsnakes
Desert Phase, Striped Desert, Newport, and Coastal California Kingsnakes
Locality Mexican Milksnakes
Spotted Mexican Milksnakes
Tangerine Mexican Milksnakes
Locality Alterna
Abbott Okeetee Cornsnakes
Mexican Baird's Ratsnakes
Cape Housesnakes
Tangerine Albino African Fat -Tailed Geckos
Locality Spotted Turtles

What do they do for hogs?

I really don't know about wild hogs in the everglades as I rarely get to venture that far south that often, and I have not hunted since I was a teenager in S. Texas. Several months back however I was looking for something in the sporting goods section in wal-mart and I happened to notice the sign posting the hunting regs for Fl.. Apparently there seems to be a specific season when you can actually hunt wild pigs here. Or at least that is what it seemed like to me from what I read. I was a bit confused considering that in Tx. (at least when I was a kid.) hogs were considered pests and you could shoot them 365, 24/7. You were even allowed to hunt them at night with artificial lights. The only other animal you could do that with in Tx. was coyotes.
I was a bit puzzled by what I read as I thought they were considered pests here as well. You need to be properly licensed to go after the caimans here as well (yes we do have feral caimans here also.) which once again I found odd since I figured they were a pest also.

The permits and season are only for collecting them on water management lands.You can collect them any other time of year as long as you already have an ROC permit, and aren't on FWM lands or in ENP.
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I agree and as someone who lives in Miami and involved in protecting the Glades and nature from development I agree asphalt is the danger to natives aka Miami NOT Florida politicians involved in constant shady deals .

I would be surprised if you saw any pythons regardless of the cold spell its been a cold winter with one low 40 degree night after another than we get a break from it and it returns.

I wonder what the python count will be end of March if any as we still have cold nights in the forecast its just been terible cold wise.

Lia, I'm coming down to N. Miami Beach to see my daughter on the 10th. It's not much warmer there than Md. She's having problems with sugar ants, tho....and she's on the 4th floor. Still no small lizards.

I'll dress warmly.

Its horrible its like 42 degrees now . The sugar ants are easy to get rid of .

Mix in a jar-

1 cup water, 2 cups sugar, 2 tablespoons boric acid. Than add cotton balls . Let them soak up the mixture as you want the balls fairly wet.

Place them in areas traveled by the sugar ants . They eat this stuff and die . I am not sure how it works but by going back to colony they kill them all.

NEVER place the cotton balls directly on the counter,floor,etc I place them on piece of flat tin foil,little flat dish etc. Some say the boric acid can discolor tiles,etc but perfectly fine when placed on tinfoil,etc.

This has wiped out sugar ant problem I once had and they NEVER came back. In theory if your kitchen counter,etc is clean you don't get them but that's not true in florida and they seem to even be attracted to toothpaste in the bathroom.

Replace the cotton balls every 2 or 3 days and in 15 yrs she won't have any sugar ants lol just kidding it took me 2 weeks and again gone for yrs.

#### If she has pets that can get to this than she can't do it .

Thanks. I passed that info on to her. Her BF's dad is taking me into the glades for a tour. He's fished the glades for years. I'll be looking for Burms!