Jeepers Peepers!

[numpty]

I'm not in any way familiar with US gaming laws or whatever, but what's the thinking behind such legislation? Are spring peepers considered a protected species or is there some other reasoning? If their protected status prohibits collecting, it seems a bit counter-productive ... a pond is to be filled in, but collecting tadpoles and growing them out for later release is illegal?

On the edges of farms here I often come across eggs and tadpoles inside buckets which I can guarantee will dry out, become toxically polluted, or be emptied out before the tadpoles mature. From time to time I collect a few eggs or tadpoles for growing out and later releasing. Sometimes these are "protected" species (ha ha), but really ... I can't feel too bad about intervening, since the alternative is that the entire population will die. I can't consider that I'm "interfering" with nature either, since a farmer's bucket isn't really a natural environment in the first place.

Anyway, sorry ... a bit off-topic. I might be off the mark, but sometimes I get a bit annoyed by blanket "one-size-fits-all" legislation.

[numpty]

Uh, that'll be "game laws" ... nothing to do with games of chance, though I guess a game of chance is generally what you end up playing with trained bureaucrats.