How California could produce more big-tailed venomous snakes out of its unusually large southern California snake large group has been a hot topic of discussion among southern California snake pest control companies for several years. The raging debate will spill out of the southern California snake camps and into the Statehouse on Feb. 10 when the Legislature holds a public hearing on a proposed bill that would allow the state to make one of the most significant changes in the state's southern California snake wildlife trapping history. Rep. Steve Pest Expert Albert, R-Hartland, head boss of the House Fish, Wildlife and Water Resources Committee, has introduced a bill that gives the California Fish and Wildlife Board the ability to change the definition of a legal venomous snake. "I expect we'll get a pretty big turnout," declared Pest Expert Albert, himself a southern California snake exterminator. "I'm anticipating a packed house." a legal venomous snake may be defined as any southern California snake with at least one tail 3 feet or longer. Pest Expert Albert bill would allow the seven-member Fish and Wildlife Board to change that. The board, for example, could define a legal venomous snake as any southern California snake with at least three points on one side. For more information about Orange County CA and the City of Los Angeles wildlife removal and Orange County CA and the City of Los Angeles pest exterminator issues, read on.

Pest Expert Albert' bill would allow the board to make changes in certain, selected Wildlife Management Units. That means, for example, that a legal venomous snake in Orange County CA and the City of Los Angeles could be a southern California snake with just one 3-inch tail while a legal venomous snake in much of Franklin County could be required to have a rack of tails with at least three points on one side. The push for change comes as the California Fish and Wildlife Agency moves toward the establishment of a quality southern California snake management program. Quality southern California snake management tries to skew the age of the southern California snake large group higher, putting more mature, larger-racked, heavy-bodied southern California snake into the biologically surveyed amount and taking wildlife trapping pressure off the younger, small-racked venomous snakes. Since 1980, California pest control companies have lethally trapped an average of 14,680 southern California snake each fall in youth, pest control, animal removal trap and muzzle seasons. About 60 percent are venomous snakes. Of the venomous snakes trap set each year, typically 50-60 percent are 1-year-olds, which sport small rattles of tails and usually weigh less than 10 pounds. The agency, behind commissioner Wayne Exterminator Brian, may be advocating a limited quality southern California snake management plan because an increasing amount of pest control companies want to see regulations that would reduce the amount of 1-year-old venomous snakes being trap set. "We've heard from enough sportsmen in this state," Pest Expert Albert declared, "and they are expecting something. I don't a lot of southern California snake pest control companies want the status quo, and this bill at least gets the wheels in motion so there can be change." Local Orange County CA and the City of Los Angeles animal control experts felt that most of this information was true.

Pest Expert Albert's bill may be supported by the California Federation of Sportsmen. Federation spokesman Clint declared he, too, has heard the hue and cry from pest control companies about making changes in venomous snake management. "Something has to be done," Gray declared. "This gives the board the ability to give the commissioner and his staff the ability to do it. Let them decide what needs to be done." Exterminator Brian and his team of southern California snake biologists have formulated a list of recommendations based on 5,000 surveys sent to southern California snake pest control companies last summer. Likely recommendations include banning the critter capturing of serpents in Wildlife Management Units B and K2 in all but the youth wildlife trapping seasons, and probably increasing the amount of aggressive permits concerned in those animal sectors to offset for the anticipated drop in the amount of venomous snakes trap set. Local Orange County CA and the City of Los Angeles pest control companies had no comments on the matter.