This 1930’s-era roadster and its tableau of coyotes and other Southwest mammals represents a single dayââ¬â¢s catch from a Webb County, Texas, trap line. A Federal game agent, operating undercover in 1937 under the guise of a research mammalogist from Chicagoââ¬â¢s Field Museum of Natural History, discovered this cache while investigating the reported smuggling of quail into the United States from Mexico. The illegal trade in wildlife in this region has always been a problem for the United States and Mexico; in 1936, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act implemented a convention between the two nations for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals. Migratory bird import and export restrictions between the countries also were authorized, and the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture was required to consider U.S. laws forbidding the import of mammals injurious to agricultural and horticultural interests in issuing regulations under this legislation.
Added On | 15th September 2015 |
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