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USARK Major Accomplishments
USARK Accomplishments 2012
Major Accomplishments
• Led massive Grass Roots Campaign to KILL HR669. Generated almost 50,000 letters to US House Natural Resources Committee - 2008
• Killed S373/HR2811 ‘Python BAN’- 2009-2010
• Filed Information Quality Challenge with USGS on ‘Constrictor Report’ - 2010
• Commissioned Georgetown Economic Services to produce first comprehensive economic assessment of Herp Industry - 2011
• Established Herp Industry as $1.4 billion Cottage Industry - 2011
• Defeated Anti-Herp Legislation in more than a dozen states - 2008-2012
• Made successful federal case to remove Reticulated Python, Boa Constrictor and 3 other snakes from Injurious Wildlife listing of Lacey Act supported by public comments from SBA, AZA & PIJAC- 2008-2012
• Working to OVERTURN listing of Burmese Python and 3 other snakes from Injurious Wildlife listing - 2012
• Led successful opposition to VA HB1242/ SB477 Dangerous Animal Legislation (DAL) - 2012
• Spearheading fight against DAL in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Rhode Island, West Virginia & South Carolina - 2012
• Spent approximately 75% of budget fighting anti-herp legislation and regulation - 2008-2012
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Thank you so much for all you have done....
“I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.” – Winston Churchill
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0.1 '10 lesser, 0.1 '10 albino, 1.0 '11 Black Pastel het. Albino, 0.1 '11 het. Albino, 0.1 '08 het. Albino, 0.1 '10 het. Albino
0.1 '09 woma, 1.0 '10 Pewter, 0.1 '11 Lesser Bee
0.1 '10 Super Cinnamon Woma, 0.1 '10 Mojave Spider, 0.1 '11 mojave, 0.1 Super Chocolate
0.1 '10 Pastel Yellowbelly, 1.0 '11 Pastel Yellowbelly
1.1 '10 yellowbelly, 0.2 '10 normal
0.1 '08 Cinnamon, '08 Normal, 0.1 '10 Orange Ghost, 0.1 Black eyed lucy possible yellowbelly
1.0 '11 Cinnamon Enchi, 1.0 '11 pastave
0.1 '10 coral albino Boa, '10 1.0 Sunglow boa, 11 0.1 Motley boa
0.1 '11 Central American hypo boa, 1.0 Central American Motley
0.1 '11+T Albino Blood, 0.1 '11 poss het. +T Albino Blood
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Re: USARK Major Accomplishments
You Guys rock! Always proud to contribute so we can all have our voice heard and understood!
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Thank you USARK for all that you do
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0.1.0 Red Tail Boa (Persephine)
0.1.0 50% Dwarf Retic (Isis)
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Spyro)
3.1.0 Cats (Rajah, Muffin, Storm, Ladybug)
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