The Lacey Act was the first federal wildlife conservation statute, narrowly targeted at the interstate sale in poached game. ... Lacey Game Bill Passed, N.Y. Times, May 1, 1900, at 7.

From 2017 to 2019 there were 5,087 Lacey Act cases, and there have been another 1,746 so far in 2020, according to a USFWS report. The most common way Lacey Act law is broken is when a poacher kills ...

With over 100 years on the books (passed in 1900), the Lacey Act is the main legal defense against invasive animal species. The study appears in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

POCATELLO, Idaho — Three people have been indicted on 13 counts of violating the Lacey Act, announced U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit on Wednesday. Chad Michael Kulow, 44, Andrew May Major, 44, and ...