The splitting of hairs and playing with semantics might indicate you have too much free time or that you enjoy the superior feeling you get by tutoring what you obviously consider less intelligent people. Either way I'll repeat what I've said in a different way as I've been accused of being a poor communicator by more than one person..............Even though mankind has been meddling in the Everglades for far too long, regulating the water levels in Lake Okochobee, dissecting the Everglades with irrigation canals and meddling with Mother Nature as often as they can........If we would like to have the Everglades (and the Keys) as pristine as is possible today......I am afraid banning Pythons and Boas will have little affect towards that goal. If the goal is truly to clean up the Everglades, it has to be looked at as an ecosystem and at the very least, ALL the invasive species be it mammal(including man), bird, fish, reptile or plant need to be addressed. I think putting a price tag (bounty) on ALL the invasive species in the Everglades is a great idea for the Everglades and for our economy!! It is only my opinion but I do think I could make much more money (bounty) from dogs, cats and feral pigs in the Everglades even if the numbers of Burmese Pythons were similar (although they are not). I also have to apologize that since the talk in the Senate of the Python Ban has crippled my business, (I strictly breed Boa Constrictors) I have to work twice as hard (more time) and can't follow the mindnumbing, non-productive nit picking I've seen going on here. Or maybe I'm just jealous that you seem to have so much free time!
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Tom Burke

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