people need to know this is all a red herring. from an environmental perspective even if you ban all non-native snakes the established population of invasive snakes are not going to stop and say,. "hey wait, we are now illegal, lets move to gorgia." They are building levies after the town was destroyed and claiming that they will undo what is already there. they might as well re-write history and say hurricane andrew never happened and all of the snakes will now disappear.