USGS Denies Due Process to Reptile Industry

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

On April 15th, the US Association of Reptile Keepers (USARK) received a response from the US Geological Survey (USGS) to a long standing appeal and Request for Correction under the Information Quality Act (IQA).   In rejecting USARK’s contention that the USGS failed to maintain a high standard of qualit... Read More

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 Last Chance Public Comment

DEADLINE August 2, 2010

The deadline for the USFWS public comment period regarding the proposed Rule Change is fast approaching. If enacted Rule Change would add 9 constricting snakes to the Injurious Wildlife list of the Lacey Act. If you have not made public comment on the rulemaking go to www.Kill-RuleC... Read More

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I was clicking through the channels tonight and ran across a Discovery Channel show called "Pig Bomb." The idea of the show is that the wild pigs within the United States are growing in population and that the individual pigs themselves are getting bigger and more aggressive. They showed plenty of shots of the huge hogs that have been killed over the past few years. They repeatedly showed the same shots of groups of about twenty or thirty pigs running through woods, of dogs chasing pigs, of p... Read More

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Posted by: USARK at Wed Jul 7 18:00:22 2010 

As forecast by USARK two months ago, the Public Comment period for the US Fish & Wildlife Service proposed Rule Change RE: the addition of 9 constricting snakes to the Injurious Wildlife list of the Lacey Act has been re-opened. The Deadline for Public Comment is midnight o... Read More

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Posted by: USARK at Fri Jul 2 05:41:50 2010 

US Fish & Wildlife Service Re-opens Public Comment

US Fish & Wildlife Service Reopens Public Comment Period on Plan to Restrict Constrictor Snakes

As requested, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reopened the public comment period on a proposed rule to designate nine species of large constrictor snakes as “injurious wildlife” under the Lacey Act. The Service seeks c... Read More

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