If so, what type of snake would that create?
Posted on 12/06/2012 1:10:36 PM PST by dennisw
Participants must take an online training course, with additional training available at the Jan. 12 event. The python must be killed in a humane manner, using a firearm or other methods outlined in the training materials. The dead pythons must be brought within 24 hours to one of three drop-off locations in Davie, Miami and Naples. For a complete list of rules, go to http://www.pythonchallenge.org.
Hunters can compete for cash prizes for catching the most Burmese pythons…
Think you can catch a $1,000 snake? The state wildlife commission is enlisting the profit motive in the fight against the Burmese pythons that have colonized the Everglades.
The 2013 Python Challenge will be held next month on South Florida's public hunting lands, with the public invited to compete for cash prizes. Winners will receive $1,000 for catching the longest snake and $1,500 for catching the most.
The event will begin Jan. 12 at the University of Florida's Davie campus with a daylong open house on pythons and other invasive species.
From there, it will be off to the wilderness, with competitors allowed to catch snakes in any of four state wildlife management areas: Francis S. Taylor, Holey Land, Rotenberger and Big Cypress. The prizes will be awarded in separate contests for the general public and for state-licensed python hunters.
A hunting license is not required, except for participants under 18.
"The [Florida Wildife Commission] is encouraging the public to get involved in helping us remove Burmese pythons from public lands in south Florida," said Kristen Sommers, head of the commission's Exotic Species Coordination Section. "By enlisting both the public and Florida's python permit holders in a monthlong competitive harvesting of Burmese pythons, we hope to motivate more people to find and harvest these large, invasive snakes."
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.sun-sentinel.com ...
“If the two python species mate, they may spawn a hybrid species, as has happened in captivity. And because of a biological phenomenon called hybrid vigor, there’s an off chance the resulting snakes could be hardier, more powerful predators—assuming they’re not sterile, as many hybrids are...”
From: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090911-pythons-florida-giant-snakes.html
Yikes.
Some of these pythons in the Everglades are huge. Seems that the bounty should be paid for length and weight.
Freeper Gladesguru is already right in the middle of them!
I posted that back in August, IIRC.
“sounds like a solution to the snakes that are invading Floriduh....”
No, NO, NOOOO ! ! !
Agencies and AgencyPerson jobs are depending on a new “Invasive Species” to control. Down in the Swamp of Socialism, AKA The Everglades, AgencyPersons used Invasive Species control money to exterminate the wild hogs in the Everglades.
According to the Armed & Rangerous, even though hogs had lived in all of Florida for the last 400 years, the habitats were not adapted to the destruction caused by ‘Boss Hawg’ and family.
So, your tax bucks were used to kill off the hogs, anand in my area, Ranger Randy and the rest of the Armed & Rangerous instituted their own version of Aporkalypse Now. These uniformed clowns burned lots of helicopter hours and scads of ammo. ParkMan won the “Battle of the Hawg”, and so did the pythons.
As anyone with more intelligence than a Pet Rock knows, pigs love snake. They think of a snake as a delicacy. Should a herd of hogs encounter a large python, and should the python wrap around Harry the hawg, the rest of the herd will happily chow down the snake. And, should Harry not be in shape to join the feeding frenzy, he will be eaten as well.
But, the Goobers from the Gooberment “deemed” the hawgs to be an invasive species. Result: No hawgs and the pythons are hawging down everything in sight. The largest one to date was 17.5 feet long!
Making it worse is that ParkMan requires snake hunters to capture the snakes alive. Not only that, they do not allow power vehicles in Everglades National Park and the rest of the Glades vehicle use area is effectively reduced to a tiny portion.
So, ParkMan wants us to capture alive snakes up to 17+ feet long and carry them miles back to the road. Not surprisingly, both Rambo and Superman declined offers to hunt python.
Conclusion: The Founders were correct when they carefully limited Federal ownership of land to the few listed in the Constitution. Government can’t manage land, and ParkMan’s failed “Aporkalypse Now” program proved the Founders correct.
Ask the pythons!
8 posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1:37:43 PM by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles.”.
Like blowing its f'n head off with your shotgun
SNAKES ARE NOT FUN, JOE!!! THEY'RE VICIOUS PREDATORS THAT WILL SCARE THE $HIT OUT OF YOU!!!
Well, that's in MY backyard anyway ............................................................................................... FRegards
Unscrew that turkey choke and toss it, screw in the python choke.
I've bagged a few, eaten 'em, and made belts out of the hide. A python isn't going to last against the old Remington 870 running #4 buck. I just want to make sure I keep enough for not just a belt, but boots and a hat.
Well, water doesn't bother me - I love fishing still, but snakes creep me out.
You take your Remington 870 and I'll bring my M61 Vulcan. You can stitch yourself some boots later ................................................................................ FRegards
It’s about time but the bounty is not nearly high enough. And they should pay by the pound.
Yeah. And a million bucks for the last python.
I have been to Big Cypress and traveled the dirt roads penetrating the interior. More dangerous than the pythons would be the alligators and cotton mouth water moccasins.
But the real problem is not danger from wild life, the real problem is the virtually impenetrable vegetation existing most everywhere other than the dirt roads and the canals. Unless you were fortunate enough to catch the snake exposed on the road, I think finding one much less killing one is very difficult.
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