Posted on 01/17/2012 8:22:06 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
The Obama administration took steps Tuesday to stop the spread of non-native snakes like pythons and anacondas throughout the Florida Everglades.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
And of course the local media, in the tank for their hero Zero, will sing his praises.
One good shot of sub-freezing climate change should go a long way towards solving the problem.
The Big Snake strikes .... late (as usual) & a dollar short (make that trillions of dollars) .... but hey, maybe he’ll get some votes.
Once the horses have departed their stables, there is no need to close the door.
Four years ago I attended a ranger talk at Collier State Park that is adjacent to the Everglades NP and the Big Cypress Swamp NWR After everyone had left, I asked the Ranger about pythons in his park. He said Shhh! we don’t talk about that.
As you travel east on the Tamiami trail, the road is paralleled by canals. Across the canal is the Everglades NP, and an absolutely impenetrable vegetative tangle.
That is the home of the pythons. There is absolutely no hope of finding and killing them there. The recent cold weather is said to have killed some, but absent some more real cold, there is no probability of getting rid of them
Putting a bounty on them and declaring the meat a delicacy should solve the problem.
Takes one to know one.
All hail Saint Obama! He crushed the head of the serpents and drove them into the sea! FOUR MORE YEARS!
Sarc / off
They’ve been setting out snake traps, but they just keep catching james carville.
If any Fla state or federal agency was serious about cleaning out these non-native vipers all they have to do is post a bounty on each dead snake turned in.
Maybe $100 for little ‘uns and $200 for mature adults.
Turn the heads in for the bounty, keep the meat and skins.
In two years the Everglades would be clean.
Some guy named Patrick already scored that gig, I think.
Get the designers to make boa, python and anaconda snake skin purses, shoes, belts and boots “chic” again! Those swamp people will clean them out just like they almost did the alligators about forty years ago.
But then, they may have to give up their government subsidies in order to hunt snakes. Never mind.
Some guy named Patrick already scored that gig, I think.
Come on Zer0! This just cries for a photo op.
Get on an airboat, hip waders, pith helmet, snake tongs.
Get down and dirty.
Ah, now it is becoming more clear. Miami news is now giving credit to Senator Bill Nelson, the ‘rat seeking re-election, for the move. Blatant free campaign crap VIA the local media.
Make it $500 for the babies, and $1,000 for the biguns, and the snakes would be history in 2 years.
Let the Gov’t do their thing, and we will have another forever gov’t program that never gets anything done, and costs millions of bucks a year.
Oddly, the snakes may have compensating benefits if they reduce wild hog, armadillo, and feral cat populations — all of those being new species that have had detrimental effects on the local ecology. Trapping and suppression strategies against boas and pythons using scent lures nevertheless seem possible in concept and likely to be developed.
You know, we suddenly seem to have a LOT of loose cats in our neighborhood. I don’t know if they are feral or just house cats let run loose. In fact, I noticed all across the country this summer when we took our trip herds of cats were common. I have never seen so many. Maybe not enough pythons.
If we could just train the pythons to eat Melaleuca trees.
Domestic cats tend to get turned loose by owners in times of life or economic distress or, in college towns, at the end of the semester. Most soon fall prey to a combination of starvation, disease, injury, and predators, usually coyotes. Genuinely feral cats are a major cause of the decline of songbirds in the US and Europe, and in Australia, they exact a heavy toll on protected wildlife. One wallaby protection activist took to wearing a cap made of the skin of a feral cat as a way to both make his point and to outrage cat lovers.
Others who say a bounty is the answer are also right. But Salazar wont let them do that. Plenty of folks able and willing to hunt them. But what would PETA say?
GG
I’m sure it worked (to outrage cat lovers). I’m not a fan of feral cats (or the colonies). And they are quite good little predators. If they would stick with just rats and mice they would be ok but they don’t. And they spread disease including parasites. I like cats, but they are non-native and you’re exactly right. I was just surprised how many I saw on this trip, I had never seen so many before (we travel the same route and stay in the same places every year). And I never used to see ANY around here, but the past couple of years I have started seeing (and smelling) them.
They can have the illegals build tunnels for them and they can just “slink” under the boundaries.
They can have the illegals build tunnels for them and they can just “slink” under the boundaries.
WHOOPS - SORRY! Took my eye off the page!!!!
I say, let Bowbama head to Everglades Nat’l Park and head into the mangroves to capture or kill a couple. Could be a good thing. The snakes, nor Bowbama will ever come out....
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