Everglades to allow contract hunting

[Scott85]

Everglades National Park Seeking Hunters to Kill Pythons with Shotguns

The National Park Service is ramping up efforts to combat the invasive python within the national park. As of right now, they have a team of people that ca

thehuntingnews.com

 

[jrabq]

Dumb that it took them this long to allow shooting pythons , and still making it difficult to help out.

 

[Scott85]

Dumb that it took them this long to allow shooting pythons , and still making it difficult to help out.

It’s a good start at least.

 

[shootbrownelk]

Better late than never. They may have waited too long though.

 

[kentuckybow]

they will never get them all. too much territory and too many of them. might as well set up a boot factory next door and make some money that way.

 

[Boarmaster]

I doubt they will ever get them all due to the type of cover they live in but I understand during the cooler months they have a bad habit of laying on trails and roads to absorb the heat.

 

[VAspeedgoat]

Can't wait to see the hippies out protesting the killing if we actually do dent their numbers. Only a few species we can't seem to decimate and this is likely one of them. Coyotes, hogs, rats, prarie dogs, and groundhogs are the ones that come to mind.

 

[Scott85]

Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute — to kill snakes

www.nbcnews.com

I wonder if they used dead nutria rats instead of mice if it would work?