Rio Grande Valley Broadband • Entered by Susan Ostlie on March 22, 2022
The History and Effectiveness of Injurious Wildlife Listing under the “Lacey Act” – NAISMA email – 1-6-2022 9:14 am – Elizabeth Brown
January 19, 2022
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 0.5 |
| Post Admin hours | 0.5 |
| Activity Hours | 1 |
| Participants | 1 |
| Total Hours | 2 |
Key Issue: Public Lands Health & Protection
Activity Type: Trainings (WALTS, CAREs/GLOWs, research, conferences, workshops, etc.)
Key Partners: NAISMA 1-6-2022 9:14 am – Elizabeth Brown; Presented by Susan Jewell, Injurious Wildlife Listing Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Short Description of Activity
Presented by Susan Jewell, Injurious Wildlife Listing Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services. As part of the original Federal law known as the “Lacey Act” passed in 1900, injurious wildlife has been amended several times, but the purpose has always been to protect the United States from the introduction of invasive and otherwise harmful wildlife. Congress first gave the authority for overseeing injurious wildlife to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and later to the Department of the Interior. Injurious listing prohibits the importation of wild vertebrates, crustaceans, and mollusks that can cause harm to wildlife resources, humans, and other U.S. interests. However, most people know about a different provision of the “Lacey Act,” which is about trafficking of wildlife and plants. This presentation will explain what the “Lacey Act” is and the difference between the injurious and trafficking provisions. It will emphasize how the Service focuses on adding high-risk species to the Federal injurious list before they become established and how effective that has been in preventing the establishment of those injurious animals.
Reflection/Evaluation
Many of the invasives have not made it to New Mexico but those that have are certainly of concern to those who live in the Sandia Ranger District. It is a also a concern for land in the Zuni Mts. Some of our private land has been taken over by Cowpen daisies, to the detriment of what had been a beautiful meadow with many native grasses and flowers. the culprit is illegal overgrazing by cattle, and lack of predators like coyotes who eat the infestation of prairie dogs. the coupon daisies are nature’s attempt to recover some vegetation in that meadow.