I have to do a presentation for my company at this sales training event in Chicago in two weeks and it can be over anything (they are anylazing how we present, not content).

Anyways, I have to persuade or convince an audience to buy into my presentation. I would like to utilize this opportunity to inform the non-hunting world about the reverse impacts the Federal Endangered Species Act has had on these species in Texas and how hunting has actually helped these species thrive.

I am gathering alot of information off the web, I know how to use google, but I am looking for any actually statistics or any information on how this may have personally effected you.

Your input is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Andrew

No statistics, but make sure you mention that the person that led this charge didn't even live in the State of Texas (beetch was from CA).

Toss in some verbage about how we in Texas would like to exercise that same right concerning the sheer stupidity of all Yankees and the entire west coast (and most of the rocky mountain states) and outlaw tree huggers, morons, dumbasses, yankees, unions, democrats and Canadians (the real ones, not the message board ones).*

Let us know how it turns out (actually serious on that).

*this may or may not have been tongue in cheek. You decide.

I've been in the exotic business for the past 15 years. I've raised all of the above mentioned species and a few others that are red listed by the IUCN as well as many CITES III species. If you want to talk about it, you can send me an email at vic@oryxsolutions.net. Send me your phone number and I can call you back to discuss.

I'd find a way to contact the guy who was on 60 Minutes a few months ago regarding this very subject.

ttha_aggie_09, my offer still stands if you want the scoop. In regards to the comment above about contacting the ranch that was on 60 minutes, we (myself and my peers who own ranches and raise the same species) are a representation of what you saw on the program. I'm an EWA member and am involved in the lobbying for removing these regulations. Anywho, I'm available anytime you want to talk about this subject.