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...turn to a pair of hungry royal oxen for guidance. Placed before the sacred beasts are seven golden trays bearing, respectively, rice, maize, sesame, beans, rice wine, water and grass. What the cows eat - and don't eat - during the ancient Royal Plowing Ceremony predicts the upcoming year's harvest. Munching on rice is good, a signal of a bountiful crop to come. Forgoing water for rice wine could presage a drought, along with a possible surge in public drunkenness...
...Coen brothers have adapted literary works before. Miller's Crossing was a sly, unacknowledged blend of two Dashiell Hammett's tales, Red Harvest and The Glass Key; and O Brother Where Art Thou? transferred The Odyssey to the American south in the 1930s. But No Country for Old Men is their first film taken, pretty straightforwardly, from a prime American novel: Cormac McCarthy's 2005 rumination on the changing ways of crime in West Texas...
...What we are seeing is the globalization of wildlife," says Matt Wagner, head of the wildlife diversity program at the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife (TPWD). After years of little or no regulation of turtle harvesting, the state began issuing harvest permits and monitoring numbers a decade ago. As the harvest numbers increased regulators became concerned that turtles may be the new buffalo: once ubiquitous, now rarely seen thanks to aggressive harvesting in the 19th century. Later this month, TPWD will hold hearings on proposed rules to either limit or ban commercial turtle harvesting...
...Bayou Bob" Popplewell, the owner the Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch south of Dallas, is the founder U.S. Turtle and Aquatic Resource Technologies (USTART), a cooperative with some 400 members who collect and sell turtles primarily to the Asian market. "This is a vast renewable resource that we can harvest and manage wisely," Popplewell says...
...USTART's co-op members, a rancher who harvests turtles in a 200 acre lake on his land, makes about $2000 in two weeks during spring and summer seasons, Popplewell says. Any effort to regulate the Texas turtle harvest must deal with the reality that 95% of the land in Texas is in private hands, Wagner says. But even in states with large areas of public land the turtle harvest debate has been contentious - Minnesota has grappled with the issue for over a decade. Other states have banned commercial harvesting of wild turtles -among them Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina...