I've been bouncing this concept around for a while now, and I think it's time to get serious. I want to convince a local city council that the state is visibly "full of do-do" on the ferret issue, and have them HALT LOCAL ENFORCEMENT, either permanently or pending a real decision, not 14 years of buck-passing that can be documented between the courts, the legislature and the Commission/DFG. At the city level, preferrably - County will have to wait unless we can nail every town in a county. I've got a flyer mostly done outlining the situation and full of color prints from Pam Greene's photo library and elsewhere. What I need is somebody with solid contacts in City Councilpeople or a Mayor, preferrably in the greater SF Bay Area, somebody who can do some lobbying. Best bet might be a liberal or college town like Palo Alto, Berkeley or mebbe someplace in Marin. Someplace upscale without a lot of heavy crisises to distract 'em, and the smaller the better. The first one will be the hardest, and it won't be the last if we can pull this off...local gov'ts are pissed off at the state right now because of several mandated diversions of cash; the city of SF was willing to order their cops not to cooperate with *Feds* (INS) over illegal aliens *and* buck the state over needle exchange... this proves it's possible! My EMail is back online (down for the last week) or call me at 510-866-1100 x2182 if you want to help, *especially* if you have a friend/relative in local politics. It's hard to play that kind of cozy game in Sacto without bux, but on the local level it's sometimes a different story! It'll be worth it - picture DFG cost-justifying extra patrols in local city parks to the media! (Marie (or Bill?) - get back to me with that chronology ASAP so I can finish the flyer! Thanx!) [Posted in FML issue 1773]