I just got back from visiting the Everglades too and they say these nasty snakes are now on top of the food chain and they are even destroying the alligators. When an alligator lays eggs it lays hundreds with nature’s intent only a two or three make it to adulthood.
The pythons are attacking the young ones and sometimes the larger ones and killing them off. Those snakes have killed off most of the mammals that once inhabited the area. Really sad.
They could clean them out with a simple bounty system. Pay per pound and have open hunting.