[GeoStL] Re: indoor caches Re: Titus Hollow RE: Reaching milestone

  • From: "Jim Bensman" <junkmailno@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:39:04 -0600

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Subject: [GeoStL] Re: indoor caches Re: Titus Hollow RE: Reaching milestone

 

Congrats! Enjoyed  reading your log and seeing the photos. We're on our way
to 500 in 5 years!  eek.

 

And, don't worry, we've all got your back on the TURKEY feather. What about
owls? I read some of the other logs and a few made mention of owls.  ohhhhhh
Piasa bird??  I bet THAT'S it. 

 

Nancy

 

Nancy and anyone else interested, possessing eagle feathers is a criminal
violation of the Endangered Species Act, the Bald and Golden Eagle
Protection Act, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (?MBTA?).  The MBTA is
rather broad and covers most birds.  Turkeys are not covered and you can
possess their feathers.  I am not sure about owls.  Basically, unless there
are regulations allowing hunting, it is crime to posses a migratory bird
feather.  While you are not likely to get arrested for picking up a feather,
it is a crime.  The US has treaties with Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Russia
for protection of birds that migrate between the countries.  I believe the
underlying reason for making it a crime is so people don?t kill the birds to
get feathers (unless there is a regulated hunting program and as someone
else mentioned there is also an exception for Native American ceremonial
use).

 

UNITED STATES CODE

TITLE 16. CONSERVATION

CHAPTER 7--PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY GAME AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS

SUBCHAPTER II--MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY

 

§ 703. Taking, killing, or possessing migratory birds unlawful

 

Unless and except as permitted by regulations made as hereinafter provided
in this subchapter, it shall be unlawful at any time, by any means or in any
manner, to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill, attempt to take, capture, or
kill, possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to barter, barter, offer to
purchase, purchase, deliver for shipment, ship, export, import, cause to be
shipped, exported, or imported, deliver for transportation, transport or
cause to be transported, carry or cause to be carried, or receive for
shipment, transportation, carriage, or export, any migratory bird, any part,
nest, or egg of any such bird, or any product, whether or not manufactured,
which consists, or is composed in whole or in part, of any such bird or any
part, nest, or egg thereof, included in the terms of the conventions between
the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds
concluded August 16, 1916 (39 Stat. 1702), the United States and the United
Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals
concluded February 7, 1936, the United States and the Government of Japan
for the protection of migratory birds and birds in danger of extinction, and
their environment concluded March 4, 1972  [FN1] and the convention between
the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the
conservation of migratory birds and their environments concluded November
19, 1976.

 

 

Jim Bensman
"Nature Bats Last" 

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