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Reader Participation Day: Has the Presence of Pythons Changed the Way You Feel About Visiting Everglades National Park?

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This female Burmese python recently captured in Everglades National Park was just over 16 feet long and weighed 140 pounds.  NPS photo.

 Everglades National Park now has a large population of Burmese pythons that can grow to very large size. The largest captured so far was a 16-footer that weighed 140 pounds.

The National Park Service believes that the snakes are bad for the Everglades ecosystem, but pose very little threat to Everglades visitors.  Do you agree? Has the presence of the pythons changed the way you feel about visiting Everglades National Park?

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In the world of liability, giving machetes to visitors is probably a no no.  BYOM (Bring your own machete) might work.


Letting the public do the killing is a chancy thing. A lot of folks will, if given the opportunity, kill every snake that they see and "let God sort 'em out."


Snakeburgers might be tasty . . . .


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