Quote Originally Posted by RoseyReps View Post
That is an accurate assumption. Although I agree with the general idea of having hunters do a round up, I would rather see people who are experienced with burms and giant pythons doing the rounding up. I don't believe it should be opened to the general public. Too many native snakes are going to be killed because of inexperience, and if they actually find a burm, you can bet it will not be put down humanely. One of the members of the central florida herp society was there on the first day, he had a couple guys bring him a rat snake thinking it was a burm. Thankfully, they had not killed the snake before getting it ID'd. According to him, the people showing up were armed to the hilt, looking to be expecting a zombie apoc, or burms spewing forth from the glades at them.

Yay for publicity stunts....
Agree.

Every time I see this on the news, I picture a different scene from 'Anaconda' and it makes me chuckle.

Ok...sorry for jacking your thread OP, back to the topic at hand....!