Snake "Wine".
Posted on 10/28/2011 7:08:49 PM PDT by driftdiver
EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK — Water management contractors working in the Florida Everglades have captured and killed a giant Burmese python that had just consumed an adult deer.
Scott Hardin, exotic species coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, says workers found the nearly 16-foot-long snake on Thursday.
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And they say, “everything’s bigger in Texas”.
Who’s going to pay for that?
“Easy fix, have a bounty, year around no limit hunt. Pay extra for baby snakes. Than sell snake skin boots etc... Man vs Food snake on a stick episode from glades. Species eradicated from glades in a few years.”
Doncha unnerstand!
Allowing free enterprise and free market demand onto “Wilderness Lands” would be the same thing as allowing some knuckle walker to drive an airboat across the sacred face of Holy Mother Gaia!
Oops - uhhh ......
Snarking aside, the only way a agency reacts to new circumstances is by opening a new department and hiring more bureaucrats.
Not long ago, hte local commie enabler, A.K.A The Miami Herald, breathlessly announced that the Department of the Inferior was training a beagle to track down such snakes.
My dubbing such efforts “Trolling for snake” was not appreciated.
But, the grant money continued to flow. “Gimmie My Check” Syndrome at work.
Why are they out of control? Just kill them!
find em 1st
I looked online further about this....it seems a hurricane in the nineties destroyed a snake type zoo and scattered the snakes....coupled with far too many people wanting them as an exotic pet (while they are small) and then carelessly ditching them when they gain strength and size.
Adding to this a female Burmese can lay up to a hundred eggs at a time...so the population could easily duplicate itself many times over those which are actually caught.
It was also said because the Burmese has no natural enemy in thier environment there, they will simply continue to multiply. And worse they are eating the natural wildlife there.
One man said just wait another ten years and they’ll be hunting 20 to 30 foot pythons there. Chilling to think of!
That is a lot of boots and snake steaks there.
A bounty program could be quite cost effective in the long run, versus the ineffective way government handles problems. $25 to $50 bounty per snake, more if the snake is a particularly large and/or dangerous one.(Think African Rock Python.) Hunters take the risks to eradicate these dangerous snakes for fun and profit. The state reaps the long-term rewards of having this threat to native wildlife species eliminated before some species go extinct. There is also the added bonus of all those snakeskins. Snakeskin products could be sold to provide funding for the bounty money. Just a thought.
I havent seen the show but I have been in the everglades. I wonder if the show isn’t more hype than reality.
The gators and other snakes will eat the small ones. Hawks absolutely love snakes.
Bounties won’t work until they get much higher. Its fun to go hunt them but at only $50 a snake its not economical.
How many gun belts and/or holsters?
I’d love to see my Vaquero in one.
Too much common sense for the state to adopt such a program.
OK. $200 to $250 per snake and $500 per snake that measures at least 15 ft long. Maybe at those rates, hunters could hunt full-time to eradicate these beasts before someone dies as a result of a snake attack.
True, but it is sad that common sense no longer has a place in the halls of government.
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