Posted March 24, 2017 2:26 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

Besides minimum wage for up to eight hours per day, those who bag a python get paid by the foot. (Chart: SFWMD)
A water district in South Florida is moving forward with a plan to pay selected hunters– both by the hour and by the snake– to clear out invasive Burmese pythons.
As previously reported, the South Florida Water Management District is kicking off a two-month pilot program during which volunteer hunters will be paid both for their time spent on the job as well as a bonus for each of the huge snakes bagged.
“The Governing Board has approved a pilot monetary compensation program that will incentivize a limited number of public-spirited individuals to kill pythons,” says SWFD in a statement. “The program will give participants unprecedented access to SFWMD lands in an effort to remove these destructive snakes, which have become an apex predator in the Everglades”
The program, which will select 25 participants from the nearly 1,000 that have applied, will run from April 1 to June 1. Hunters will be paid minimum wage for as many as eight hours per day spent on district land, which will be verified by a GPS tracking app. In addition, a bounty will be

Source: Guns.com

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