Originally Posted by
Allan
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?