[Salamander]

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/3355/20130806/timber-rattlesnakes-help-control-spread-lyme-disease.htm

When CT went fear-berserk and annihilated their native rattler population, Lyme was endemic to just that area.

With no more snakes, the Lyme vectors flourished.

Now, we have Lyme *everywhere*.

How’d that work out for us?

[Salamander]

Same ol’ same ol’.

[Hot Tabasco]

With no more snakes, the Lyme vectors flourished.

You're a snake lover and I respect your opinion. With that being said, Michigan has it's own lyme disease vectors along the western coast line from the Ohio border to the top of the state but yet all the counties eastward have as yet no evidence of Lyme, especially since we have no rattlesnakes here in Michigan.

As much as I don't wish to disagree with you, I suspect this study from the outset was designed with the purpose to reintroduce an alleged endangered species in order to control a contrived crisis........