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Everglades swamped with invading pythons
news.yahoo. ^ | May 29, | Jim Loney

Posted on 05/30/2009 4:15:21 PM PDT by JoeProBono

The population of Burmese pythons in Florida's Everglades may have grown to as many as 150,000 as the non-native snakes make a home and breed in the fragile wetlands, officials said on Thursday. Wildlife biologists say the troublesome invaders -- dumped in the Everglades by pet owners who no longer want them -- have become a pest and pose a significant threat to endangered species like the wood stork and Key Largo woodrat. "They eat things that we care about," said Skip Snow, an Everglades National Park biologist, as he showed a captured, 15-foot (4.6-meter) Burmese python to U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who was on his first fact-finding mission to the Everglades since the Obama administration took office.

With Snow maintaining a strong grip on its head, the massive snake hissed angrily at Salazar and the other federal officials who gathered around it at a recreation area off Alligator Alley in the vast saw grass prairie. It took two other snake wranglers to control the python's body. "A snake this size could eat a small deer or a bobcat without too much trouble," Snow told Salazar before the secretary boarded an airboat for a tour of the Everglades.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: everglades; florida; python; snake
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To: G8 Diplomat

41 posted on 05/30/2009 6:22:54 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono; Bender2; Lil'freeper
Monty, did someone say python?
42 posted on 05/30/2009 6:26:21 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ([Advocate for] Mitt Romney[?], God help you, but you're on the wrong website ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: big'ol_freeper

You’re here, finally! We’ve been waiting 2 hours since post # 6!


43 posted on 05/30/2009 6:28:14 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: shibumi
Yuo got problem with MOFO snakes call me....
44 posted on 05/30/2009 6:32:55 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
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To: GSP.FAN

...and to think the guy’s a flaming pink liberal.


45 posted on 05/30/2009 6:34:11 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD
After seeing him in Pulp Fiction ,i will forgive him.
46 posted on 05/30/2009 6:43:39 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
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To: rodguy911

We haven’t really had a rash of gators eating young kids. I do wish they would eat more South Florida liberals.


47 posted on 05/30/2009 6:53:23 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: GSP.FAN

An epic display of character acting enhanced by a script of Shakespearian wit and subtlety.


48 posted on 05/30/2009 6:54:56 PM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: ought-six
"...unless southern Florida has extended deep freezes, highly unlikely.”

All you have to do is get AlGore to take up permanent residency.
49 posted on 05/30/2009 6:57:43 PM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: GSP.FAN

Whenever I see Travolta I think Welcome Back Cotter. I cannot believe a B-rater like Travolta is so successful. Pop culture is a queer thing, no?


50 posted on 05/30/2009 6:59:41 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: shibumi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u9cmzS4Hg8

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides
By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will,
Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness,
For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger
Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.
And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.”


51 posted on 05/30/2009 7:02:07 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
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To: 1010RD

Never seen Cotter,but the conversations they have in the movie is excellent..
The foot massage is my favourite.
Never really thought about them as a or b actors if i like the movie,that’s it...


52 posted on 05/30/2009 7:09:37 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
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To: rodguy911

Do the RINOs and far left libs eat small kids as well, or do they just tax them out of their lunch money?


53 posted on 05/30/2009 7:18:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: GSP.FAN

I was referring to the “snakes” movie.


54 posted on 05/30/2009 7:19:56 PM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: bert
You have apparently been to the Everglades. The vegetation is impenetrable. The area is vast

Guns are not a viable solution

Napalm?

55 posted on 05/30/2009 7:23:00 PM PDT by D Rider
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To: ought-six

I would think a .22 mag out of a rifle should do the job. Lacking that a 12 gauge loaded with number sixes or fours should make the snake lose his head, or a good part of it.

In my experience snakes of all kinds are fairly easy to kill. My daddy took it too far and use a long slender switch and he would invariably break the snakes back with it. I think he was showing off but it worked.

Me I liked to kill them with a .22 pistol as long as they are no bigger than a Florida diamondback which seldom get longer than 7 feet.


56 posted on 05/30/2009 7:30:07 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: shibumi

I fell asleep during the movie..
Did i miss anything?


57 posted on 05/30/2009 7:31:35 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
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To: shibumi

Tell No One...
Check out this movie..
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/movies/02tell.html

The story, which involves murder and depravity in high places, is so elaborately twisty that about halfway through the movie you stop trying to figure it out and let its polluted waters wash over you, trusting that the denouement will reveal all. It does and it doesn’t. When the truth spills out, and ugly revelations pile onto one another in an extended final confession, the puzzle pieces fit more snugly than those of “The Big Sleep,” the granddaddy of impenetrable noirs. But one of the pleasures of both films is surrendering to a vision of corruption and evil that resists tidy explanations.


58 posted on 05/30/2009 7:36:45 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
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To: LouAvul
Government sponsored bounty. Government issues ammo. End of problem. Guaranteed.

No, issue permits and let them sell the skins.

People pay to hunt.

59 posted on 05/30/2009 7:42:57 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: GSP.FAN

Ref #57: No.

Ref #58: I love film noir. All time favorite is “The Seventh Victim, directed by Val Lewton.


60 posted on 05/30/2009 7:48:56 PM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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