Only the brave need apply

[Fatman LOU]

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Now Accepting New Applications
The program is now currently accepting new python removal agents. If you would like to become an SFWMD python removal agent, please click here to fill out an application form. More information on program eligibility and requirements are available in the "Program Details" and "Frequently Asked Questions" sections below.
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Python Tracker
The charts below track the ongoing progress of program python removal agents. The charts are updated as python removal agents turn in pythons to SFWMD staff for measurement.








Program Details
Each python removal agent was provided with procedural instruction and field identification guides. Access has been given to SFWMD lands in Miami-Dade, Broward, Collier and Palm Beach counties. Python removal agents will be paid:

• A minimum wage hourly rate up to 10 hours daily. Time spent searching for pythons on SFWMD lands must be verified by a GPS tracking app installed on each python removal agent's iOS or Android mobile device.
• An additional incentive payment of $50 for each python measuring up to 4 feet plus an extra $25 for each foot measured above 4 feet. In the example below, an 8-foot python would pay out $150.
• An additional $200 for each eliminated python found guarding "nests" with eggs.
  
  

Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Python Elimination Program?
What are the target species?
Why is the District trying to remove pythons?
Who can participate?
How many python removal agents will be selected?
Where can selected python removal agents survey for snakes?
How will python removal agents be compensated?
Can firearms be used to remove pythons?
Why must python removal agents have a smart phone?
Will python removal agents need to have a FWC Conditional Reptile Removal Permit?
May python removal agents bring assistants with them during surveys?
Can non-contractors remove pythons from public or private lands?
Print Questions and Answers – Python Elimination Program [PDF]

Background
The non-native Burmese python was likely introduced to Florida's Everglades by accidental or intentional releases by pet owners. Once sought-after commodities, pythons have been sold by breeders as pets or showpieces to exotic animal collectors. Since making their way into the bountiful grounds of the Everglades, these giant constrictors have thrived, assuming a top position on the food web.
While researchers have been hard pressed to provide specific population numbers in the Everglades, a rapid number of increased sightings from 2005 to 2010 is concerning. The species was once relegated to only Everglades National Park and Miami-Dade County, but recent tracking shows pythons are moving westward into locations such as Big Cypress National Preserve and northward into Broward and Palm Beach counties.
Burmese pythons possess an insatiable appetite. They can not only kill Florida native prey species and pose a threat to humans, but also rob panthers, birds of prey, alligators and bobcats of a primary food source.
A University of Florida study published in 2015 researched invasive pythons' impact on indigenous food sources. Researchers released 95 adult marsh rabbits in areas of the Everglades known to harbor pythons. Within 11 months of the release, the study showed that pythons accounted for 77 percent of rabbit deaths, reducing prey for native predators.

 

[Ares]

@Urblock just send in Rango, easy peasy

 

[Tater]

I'd give it a shot if I lived in the area. Never been afraid of snakes here and used to catch a lot of them as a kid.

 

[Ares]

I'd give it a shot if I lived in the area. Never been afraid of snakes here and used to catch a lot of them as a kid.

Don't you have chronic pain... back pain?

 

[Tater]

Don't you have chronic pain... back pain?

Yes. I guess I should have said I'd try it if healthy enough to do it.

 

[Ares]

Yes. I guess I should have said I'd try it if healthy enough to do it.

Seems like it would be demanding on the body potentially.

 

[Tater]

Seems like it would be demanding on the body potentially.

Definitely. I guess sometimes I try to forget how limited I am.

 

[Ares]

Definitely. I guess sometimes I try to forget how limited I am.

Hey man I deal (am dealing) with chronic knee pain, so I get you.

Lol I actually wondered if you had found a solution to your issues.

 

[Tater]

Hey man I deal (am dealing) with chronic knee pain, so I get you.

Lol I actually wondered if you had found a solution to your issues.

Thanks for asking. 13 different doctors/specialists and Cleveland Clinic have no answers about it and I'm out of options now. They say I'm a medical freak of nature.

Edit: Sorry for the derail OP.

 

[Fatman LOU]

Come on @Tater , you're retired, im retired, lets go do it . You just hold the camera and take the videos, i'll do the hunting.

 

[Tater]

Come on @Tater , you're retired, im retired, lets go do it . You just hold the camera and take the videos, i'll do the hunting.

"Hold my beer and watch this"

 

[Fatman LOU]

i filled out the application, see what happens.

 

[Fatman LOU]

"Hold my beer and watch this"

Right , we would make more money selling our videos . The camera loves me ...

 

[Raskolnikov]

i filled out the application, see what happens.

I'll be in. You might need some crazy to deal with the rednecks if not the pythons. Check out some photos of an 8 foot python mouth and their glass teeth, they aren't very poisonous but like lizards can cause infection. Not even worried about them, more worried about a gator ambush while you are busy wrangling and splashing about fighting a python.

 

[Ares]

I'll be in. You might need some crazy to deal with the rednecks if not the pythons. Check out some photos of an 8 foot python mouth and their glass teeth, they aren't very poisonous but like lizards can cause infection. Not even worried about them, more worried about a gator ambush while you are busy wrangling and splashing about fighting a python.

More likely to get stabbed/eaten by a person who lives in Florida.

 

[Fatman LOU]

I'll be in. You might need some crazy to deal with the rednecks if not the pythons. Check out some photos of an 8 foot python mouth and their glass teeth, they aren't very poisonous but like lizards can cause infection. Not even worried about them, more worried about a gator ambush while you are busy wrangling and splashing about fighting a python.

Hey i am the REDNECK, and it says i can carry a firearm. That why i need a back-up to watch out for the gators. Fill out the app @Raskolnikov

 

[Fatman LOU]

More likely to get stabbed/eaten by a person who lives in Florida.

nvanprooyen

 

[Ares]

Oooh @SERE Bear can provide fire support from his boat.

 

[Fatman LOU]

Oooh @SERE Bear can provide fire support from his boat.

And dabears70 lives in Florida also, well something to throw at the gators to keep them off me

 

[Burque]

And dabears70 lives in Florida also, well something to throw at the gators to keep them off me

I think pythons are the ones giving choke holds, not the other way around...