Here is the laws and regulations:
All native Georgia Nonvenomous herps are protected. You cannot posess them without a permit. I have my Native Nonvenomous Permit and Jessa is covered under it. Georgia also has a nifty little 24 hour rule. You can have ANYTHING (Cobra, Cougar or Coachwhip) for 24 hours. However native nonvenomous cannot be "collected" in the state. You have to of caught it in Florida (about an hour and a half away) or in Alabama. At that point, you can posess it for 24 hours and i can possess it indefinately. The only snake that CANNOT be captured is the Eastern Indigo. These are federally protected. There are no regulations on native venomous species. Also, this is a State Park, so no removing of wildlife from the park. It is rare that we are allowed to capture and release on a State Park.
Just a side note: Please do not "harvest" snakes. I am going down with a specific list of herps I need for educational purposes. If something does go home, be sure you know what you are getting into. Those Rainbow Snakes are gorgeous!!! But make sure you have a stockpile of feeder freshwater eels! Queen Snake is kindof cute too. Of course it only eats freshly molted crayfish!
And make no mistake. There are venomous snakes there. They caught a coral snake in the ladies room. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] Above all, be careful. You may be able to fenaggle a Copperhead with a hook for pics. But would stongly advise that anyone unexperienced with venomous leave the big boys (Diamondback, Canebrake,
Cottonmouth) alone. I know everyone says they would never try, but the heat of the moment changes everything [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] Aint no thrill like lifting a piece of tin and seeing a rattler coiled undernieth it.
I will be bringing about 15 pieces of handling equipment and I am sure Julius will be bringing quit a bit. We should be pretty good.
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