The Federal Wildlife and Related Laws Handbook was made possible by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Division of Federal Aid, with funding from the Federal Aid in Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Acts. We are deeply indebted to the Division of Federal Aid and to Mark Reeff and the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (IAFWA) for recognizing this project's value to state resource managers. Jim Beers, Federal Aid Division Project Director, has my special thanks for his expertise, advice and patience. I also appreciate IAFWA's initial seed money support for exploring the viability of this Handbook. Owen Ambur and the Department of the Interior's Office of Legislative Affairs provided materials and advice, including the invaluable Digest of Federal Laws of Interest to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1992).
Co-authors and colleagues Judy Flynn-O'Brien and Pam Lambert of the Institute of Public Law deserve special credit for their unsurpassed dedication to and support of this project. My personal thanks go to Andrew Smith, who authored chapter 3. Remarkable and brilliant Yorgos Marinakis provided extensive professional contributions, as well as encouragement and wisdom over the long haul. Elizabeth McCourt spent countless hours on this project, and Rebecca Liggett and Sue George also devoted much time and effort. Miles Hanisee, Peter Jenkins, U.S. Court of International Trade Judge R.K. Musgrave (Dad), husband Dave Warren, Elizabeth Wee and Mimi Wolok lent their invaluable assistance. Lance Himmelberger, Lori Lein, Arne Leonard, Andrew Lewis, and Anne St. John were our indefatigable and helpful law and graduate student interns.
This project could not have proceeded as smoothly as it did without the exceptional organizational abilities of our Chief Editor, Edwina Crawford, who generously postponed her long-awaited retirement to help finish the Handbook. Editor Carolyn Byers was equally dedicated, and worked her magic editing and pulling all the materials together into a beautifully formatted book.
David Farris kept us all on track with his accounting, administrative and all-around expertise, and Lori Steinmetz cheerfully input innumerable drafts of text.
I would like to thank our Handbook advisory board members, who reviewed draft summaries, lists of statutes and treaties and other materials, and offered suggestions, corrections and updates: Owen Ambur, Office of Information Resources Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Buford Mabry, Jr., Chief Counsel for South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department; Fran Marcoux, Chief of Law Enforcement for Colorado Division of Wildlife; and William A. Molini, Director of Nevada Department of Wildlife.
The continuing support of Paul Nathanson, Director of the Institute of Public Law, is sincerely appreciated.
We are indebted to Angela Werneke, and to her publisher Bear and Company, for their permission to reproduce Angela's beautiful artwork in this Handbook. Her illustrations also appeared in our State Wildlife Laws Handbook (Government Institutes, Inc., 1993).
Finally, koalas to baby Chase Forrest Musgrave Warren, who at 10 months has yet to know life without his mother constantly working on "the book."
Ruth Shippen Musgrave, Director, Center for Wildlife Law
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