Huge Threat

So you’re out in the wilderness doing your favorite thing in all the world… hunting or fishing. You see something move off to the left or right, you look, do a double take, then your eyes pop out your head. There is a 23 foot long Burmese python weighing almost 200 pounds slithering toward you. Okay, okay… why are we doing in episode of Indiana Jones on Sportsman’s Spotlight? It’s becausethe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a rule banning the importation and interstate transport of four nonnative constrictor snakes. These snakes now are considered invasive species in the United States. That may be true but is it possible for them to exist in the cold environment we experience up here in the Northwest. Idaho Department of Fish and Game veterinarian Dr. Mark Drew says absolutely: “there are places where they could survive like areas around some of the Hot Springs.”