Expanding Snake Ban Could Cause Economic Woe, Feed Python Hype, Reptile Group Says Broward-Palm Beach New Times (blog) 1 2012 at 9:02 AM ​Earlier this year, our cowboy-hat-wearing secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar, hosted a news conference in the Everglades to announce a federal ban on importing four species of snakes, including the much-loathed Burmese python.