Quote Originally Posted by Allan View Post
Byron,

I have been involved in numerous discussions about this topic for many years.The discussions always end by reviewing the federal regulations, which the states' environmental departments follow. Also, what you wrote is a perfectly logical way to assess the regulation, "if big, well known, national distributors are supplying them, I pretty safely, I believe, assume such sale is legal." Exactly. For example, if maodiver is right, how does CA Fly Shop, The Fly Shop, Bob Marriot's and Trinity Fly Shop sell the feathers? How about Orvis and Cabela's or any other on-line retailers?
The problem is the poster has found a legitimate quote from CA law which conflicts with what you found. And CA was one of the main reasons I gave up on trying to find definitions of it all. The conflicts in their laws are many...
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