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Justin Snyder:
We also have several invasive species of dove that are not regulated.

beardedhorse:
You can get a list of federally protected birds by calling or writing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  It may be four or five papes ong and include over three hundred birds.  Some birds that are not game birds are not protected.  All migratory birds, all raptors or birds of prey are protected.  No one mentioned that if you are registered with BIA as a Native American that you can indeed possess eagle, owl, hawk, magpie and other feathers.  The feather bank used to be in Pocatello, Idaho but may be in Denver, Colorado now.  The artifically painted white turkey feathers can scratch and get dull from abrasion.  I paid over $3.00 per feather to replicate a Cheyenne war leadere lance and was disappointed when the brightness of the paint started to fade from abrasion.  I would encourage Native American bowyer=fletchers to fletch up traditional arrows in birds of prey and tell us how they shoot and how they stand up to wear and tear and how loud or soft they sound.  As too Diligence needing sinew, Mike Foltmer of Evans, Colorado has an ad in Primitive Archer and Wilderness Way magazines and has been selling deer and elk leg and back sinew for over ten years.  It is legal in Colorado to pick up road kill if you call the Colorado Division of Wildlife within 48 hours to get a free permit.  This only applies to residents of Colorado.   Sheep and cow intestines work likke sinew for wrapping quills on your fletch and tennis raquet strings are not made of cat gut but cow guts. 

smokeu:
Well this was informative and dissappointing at the same time. It truley is a tragedy for the Natives of this country to be hasseled over their feathers... Rayan is spot on

stickbender:

     Justin, as to the wardens, most I have met are very professional, and courteous.  But occasionally, you will run into a fecal ball.
The guy who had the birds killed, was one such.  He could have waited to check on the records, and then made his confiscation, or just let things be, if the paper work was correct.  But he has a badge, and a gun, and the feeling of power, with the Government backing him, right or wrong.  It is a shame he is so ignorant, and in fact just plain mean.  He definitely has some issues. ;)  As for Native Americans being harassed by airport officials, refer back to the section on DMV personnel. ;D  It is sort of like the Draft during the sixties...... I had a Friend from South Carolina, who was legally blind.  His glasses were litterally like the bottoms of coke bottles.  But he fit for combat.  Are alive, and moving, you are fit for combat.   ;)

                                                                                         Wayne

mullet:
 Not me, I was 4-F during Vietnam. Too many front row seats at Allman Brother Concerts. They told me I wouldn't be able to hear in-coming rounds ::), didn't really want to hear them.

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