Collecting in Florida

[Chuck Vaughn]

Daniel Glaeske wrote:
> 
> I don't know what the legal situation is but virtually the same thing
> happened to me last summer.  Very embarassing since we had company from
> Canada down at the time.  The park officials compared having butterfly
> nets in the park to having unregistered hunting rifles.  (oddly enough,
> at this park,anyway, hunting with rifles for game animals in season <is>
> legal, but simply possessing lepidoptera paraphenalia is <not> legal).

It seems they think catching butterflies is the same as shooting vertebrate
animals? This sounds like environmentalism run amok. Why do ignorant laws
like this get enacted? I thought the reason we *had* parks was for the public's
use. You can get a hunting license, a fishing license and even though I think
it's unnecessary, I wouldn't be against a butterfly catching license.

So Florida wants to throw you in jail for catching a butterfly in a park but
they have no problem with the suburbs chewing up habitat year after year.
This really makes a lot of sense...  

Chuck Vaughn  <aa6g at aa6g.org>