Posted on 08/10/2009 12:12:52 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Nobody has killed more Burmese pythons in the Everglades than Bob Hill.
Long before the state launched its new python patrol, Hill was quietly -- aside from judicious employment of a 12-gauge -- racking up a count of constrictor carcasses likely to stand for some time.
The patrol has bagged six in three weeks. Hill figures he's ``dispatched'' 35 this year alone, and he's been in the dispatching business for the South Florida Water Management District since 2004.
That was the first time a rattled boss rang him from the L-67, a flood-control levee deep in the Everglades. Hill, a soft-spoken Miamian with a half-century of swamp savvy, chuckled recalling it.
``He said, `Bobby, I've got a snake here. It's as big as my truck.' ''
Some 300 pythons later, the side job has turned into full-time work. And Hill's uncanny nose for the giant snakes -- sometimes, he can literally smell them -- has turned the modest maintenance worker into not only the state's top exterminator of the exotic menace, but a leading authority on their habits....
Beat you by thaaat much (5 secs)
The stainless steel might be useful in the Everglades, but the pistol grip would only amuse the locals. I once had a stainless steel pump, Winchester Model twelve, that I carried when sailing in the Bahamas That was back in the bad old days of drug runners who stole boats and killed the owners. It had a full load of oo buck when I was on board.
The stainless steel might be useful in the Everglades, but the pistol grip would only amuse the locals. I once had a stainless steel pump, Winchester Model twelve, that I carried when sailing in the Bahamas That was back in the bad old days of drug runners who stole boats and killed the owners. It had a full load of oo buck when I was on board.
A bounty on all alien species would cause them to be eradicated in short order. I don’t know why it has not been done with species such as nutria.
You read faster than me by 5 seconds. :)
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