Legal compliance resources for natural science collections

[Alison Tirrell]

Can anyone recommend some resources for how to apply  laws such as the Lacey Act or Endangered Species Act to museum collections. I recently began tackling the problem of digitizing our Natural Science collection and in doing so realized that many of the specimens in our collection need permitting. We may or may not have had the permits in the past (the records for that collection are a mess). Some of them may be covered under the permits we already have for our Living collection, but some will definitely need more.

Any reading suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

 

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