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Post by papiliotheona on Jan 12, 2015 18:02:43 GMT -8
All,
A couple of reliable local sources have told me that Florida has extremely comprehensive blanket wildlife laws in place. *Technically* you need a difficult-to-obtain permit for collecting even in your own backyard, like Mexico, albeit that would be impossible to enforce. *It is* enforced, however, on ALL public lands, even city parks, even in National Forests which are the jurisdiction of the federal government. You simply *cannot* collect under any circumstances in FL in any "known" place without an NPS-style nightmare permit.
Can somebody here help make sense of this? If this is true, this is absolutely preposterous. Thank you.
PT
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Post by entoman on Jan 12, 2015 18:51:21 GMT -8
Having lived in Florida for 23 years now and having majored in entomology at the University of Florida, I have yet to hear of any licenses or permits required to collect insects outside of what one would expect to need while collecting in a state or national park. Two of my courses at UF even required collections as a substantial part of the grade but there was no mention of any permits required and I did not hear of any students being harassed by local law enforcement personnel (not for collecting anyway). I cannot speak from knowledge of the law, but I can speak from experience that, at least functionally, there are no such permits needed.
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Post by papiliotheona on Jan 12, 2015 18:55:57 GMT -8
Having lived in Florida for 23 years now and having majored in entomology at the University of Florida, I have yet to hear of any licenses or permits required to collect insects outside of what one would expect to need while collecting in a state or national park. Two of my courses at UF even required collections as a substantial part of the grade but there was no mention of any permits required and I did not hear of any students being harassed by local law enforcement personnel (not for collecting anyway). I cannot speak from knowledge of the law, but I can speak from experience that, at least functionally, there are no such permits needed. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I hope you are right, but the people who told me this are longtime FL residents and experts. I looked all over the FWC website for information about this and found nothing. The only documents pertained to game species/endangered species/fishing/hunting, etc. regulations. |
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Post by entoman on Jan 12, 2015 19:01:13 GMT -8
This may apply to "wildlife" (I don't hunt so I wouldn't know) but I'm pretty sure fish and game do not classify insects and invertebrates as such.
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Post by papiliotheona on Jan 12, 2015 19:04:38 GMT -8
This may apply to "wildlife" (I don't hunt so I wouldn't know) but I'm pretty sure fish and game do not classify insects and invertebrates as such. I was told that even leaves, seeds, etc. technically count but I have not seen any of the regulations. I asked one of the Gainesville guys over email so let's see what he says. |
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