Looking for Lacey Act info

Semjase semjase at aol.com
Thu Sep 17 21:20:55 EDT 1998




>Subject: Re: Looking for Lacey Act info
>From: fnkwp at aurora.alaska.edu (Kenelm Philip)
>Date: 9/16/98 8:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time
>Message-id: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980916184524.17200C-100000 at aurora.alaska.edu>
>
>
>	There has been a _lot_ of information related to the Lacey Act
>in the News of the Lep. Soc. for several years now. As far as grand-
>fathering goes, I remember reading (perhaps on Entomo-L or Leps-L) that
>the F&WS now has procedures for 'cleansing' museum collections when they
>contain material that is not 'Lacey Act clean'. However, these procedures
>were not available for private collections.
>
>	I also have been told by F&WS staff that specimens collected
>before the Lacey Act was modified in 1981 to include insects are, as one
>would expect, not covered. Earlier, some F&WS people had given the impres-
>sion that older material would still be illegal under the current act,
>according to comments from various people who had attended talks given
>by F&WS personnel. 
>
>							Ken Philip
>fnkwp at uaf.edu
>
>
All those saying government regulation is so great should read and research
this!

S.


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