Posted on 03/08/2010 11:55:10 AM PST by JoeProBono
Time to put those snake-stalking skills to work. State wildlife officials have created a special python hunting season to try to stop the spread of the nonnative snakes throughout the Everglades and the hunting begins today.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says anyone with a hunting license who pays a $26 permit fee can kill the reptiles from today to April 17 on state-managed lands around the Everglades in South Florida.
The season is open for Burmese and Indian pythons, African rock pythons, green anacondas and Nile monitor lizards.
Thousands of the nonnative Burmese pythons are believed to be in the region, upsetting the natural balance of the ecosystem.
For those new to the hunt, the state has held workshops on how to identify, stalk, capture and remove the reptiles.
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Here is a delightful recipe we’ve found for all that python meat that will be flooding the Florida meat markets soon. Please enjoy, and add your own.
Poached Python steaks with curried garlic and lemon grass sauce
INGREDIENTS
Python Steaks (1 kg)
Shallots (4-5 peeled and sliced)
Turmeric powder (1 tablespoon)
Garlic cloves (5-7 cloves, peeled and pounded)
Ginger (2-3 inches long, peeled and pounded)
Lime wedges
Lemon grass (ten stems, peeled; tender parts finely chopped and pounded)
Paprika (2 tablespoons)
White rice wine Salt (2 tablespoons)
Peanut oil (2 tablespoons)
Spring water (2 quarts)
METHOD
First boil and poach the steaks with lemon peel, rought lemon grass stems, adn skins of shallots, garlic and ginger in the quart of spring water. When the flesh is soft, take the Python steaks out and let cool. Next, saute’ shallots on low heat until lightly brown and add the ginger, garlic and all other spices. Next turn up the heat until the toasted aroma arise from the pot. Add flaked Python, rice wine, and more spring water and reduce heat for 10 minutes. Serve with hot steamed rice and greens and cold crisp Chardonnay wine.
Bon-less Appetit !
What about pointed sticks?
Fruit isn't good enough for ya?
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we have a song for you about flying saucers
They probably think if they let people in FL start shooting pests they will start shooting snowbirds...
How ‘bout a 16-ton weight
Shouldn't there be a bounty instead of a fee?
Next, they should declare open season on the yahoos that dump these non-native species into the environment.
Some subspecies of iguana is/was native to SFLA according to some bone fragments found in shell mounds b archaelogists.
I come with a more serious question... Any freepers getting in on this hunting season?
Chicken. That’s what rattlesnake taste like - should be similar..
Chubacabra
“...”snake loads”...”
When I lived on a lake in TN we had a lot of snakes around, including cotton-mouths and copperheads. My neighbor had a 22 revolver with snake loads - his were 22 cartridges with buckshot instead of a slug. Worked well.
But, if that snake ain't a hurtin me...I let um be.
Well, I’m always on the lookout for a Python, the Colt variety.
Chicken. They taste like chicken - with a slightlyh mettalic overtone from the mercury.
;-)
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