Thanks for posting this turtle information, Jane.   What a sad  situation.
 
I worked on the freshwater-mussel harvest issue at the Iowa Capitol years  
ago.  The impression I got back then, after attending a number of  committee 
meetings, was that if even one Iowan was making a  significant profit by 
unsustainably harvesting a wild resource, the  Iowa Legislature would be very 
reluctant to halt the harvest, even though of  course some individual legislators 
would want to do so.  
 
I hope things have changed since then.  I don't know.  
 
ch
 

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