Everglades python deaths fuel debate over snake-control plans
Shawn Heflick, a conservation biologist from Palm Bay and science advisor to a trade group called the U.S. Association of Reptile Keepers, said a cold-weather toll he estimated at 70 to 80 percent proved that federal risk assessments suggesting the snake could spread to other states were overblown.
``This population of pythons cannot expand outside of Florida,'' he said. ``This is a Florida problem, not a federal problem.''
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