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Old 05-05-2021, 12:40 PM   #7
JimM
Wonder what penalties / fines / restrictions will be put on the Forestry Dept for driving two species of Pine Snake to near extinction ? And how about Fish and Wildlife who didn't know what these animals requirements were ?

But for 35+ years , hobbyists / breeders have produced these two pines snakes( LA and Black ) in numbers to where there would never be pressure on the wild population by anyone wanting to work with them and it's sure the way the majority of people would ever get to see one in the flesh ... the ones bred in collections.

But who got penalized .... the 'authorities' who caused most likely irreversible harm with extinction in the wild by their inept abilities to keep them alive and well in the wild by ruining their habitat with piss-poor land management or the people who bred them consistently for going on 40 years ?