........WOW!!!!!! this is beginning to sound a lot like the stories that went around here, a few years ago, about the Missouri Dept. of Conservation.
One of the Jugheads that worked at a local Conservation Area, started the story that MDC was trading turkeys for timber rattlers. He did it as a joke, but it took off like wildfire!!!
From there it went that MDC was trading turkeys for tarantulas, ladybugs, armadilloes, ...you name it, they traded for it!!!!!

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These stories are almost always repeated by the guy that saw Sasquatch, Elvis, or a Martian.
BTW, Missouri was the ONLY state that could have traded for timber rattlers. We traded off so many turkeys that we exhausted the nationwide supply of timber rattlers.
GET REAL!!!!! Why would any Game Commission or Conservation Dept. import timber rattlers, coyotes, armadilloes, etc???
IF they need to reduce the number of game animals, they usually liberalize the number of game animals you can take, without resorting to "importing" non-native species.