They should allow more hunting.
The DUmmies voted for excessive protections so there is a big mess now.
Same with bears, wolves, mountain lions, rats...
But ... that's too simple! True, if it was opened to hunting and there was a size limit so that gators had a hard time growing bigger than, say, five feet, voila! Problem solved, and in heaven, hunters would be part of a free marketplace for gator stuff. Think of the cool gator handbags! *sigh* I can dream, can't I?
But alas, no, allowing more hunting would be yet another ugly example of man's maniupulation of nature. And these alligators are probably being visited upon us because of global warming, our own damned fault!
Just venting. I visited recently with some intelligent, professional friends who have swallowed hook line and sinker of the entire AlGore manifesto. All I could do was shake my head. Well, okay, I did more than that, but ... talk about gullible! Read a natural history book or two, for pete's sake. This planet has been heating and cooling and belching and melting and freezing nonstop for more than 5 billion years. We as a civilized species have been here for what, 4,000 years? Out of five Billion.
Florida (which hasn't even always been there) has been underwater and high-and-dry on and off for tens of millions of years. The last high water was what, 20,000 years? I've forgotten, but it's somethign like that. 20,000 lousy years ago out of 65 million since the last of the dinosaurs ... and before that what, 150 million years of nothing BUT dinosaurs ...
...and we've been here a smidgy piddling *nothing* of 4,000 years.
Every beach environmentalists strive to preserve will be underwater someday. There's no avoiding it. Every wetlands, bay, waterway, reef, environmentalists seek to control will be completely dry someday. You can see the old shorlines on coastlines from eons ago whether you scuba dive or hike the country. Twenty-five miles inland in the foothill mountains behind the California Central Coast, I've seen massive banks of fosillized oyster shells.
For the life of me, I don't understand why educated, sensible people don't have more common sense than to think that we matter one bit in the whole global weather scenario. And another thing! For secularist environmentalists, if man is just another animal of the planet, then philosophically his "environmental impact" is equal to beavers who build dams. So when's the last time you saw a beaver have to file for an EIR?
We have hunting dog owners from Florida coming up here to train because they can't find a gator-free body of water to do water retrieves in. (There goes any duck hunting, too. After the gators eat all the ducks, they'll get your Lab.)
I say open season on the nasty things. Now. Bring alligator bags and shoes back into fashion.