What is the importance of having a 10a permit from the Fish and Wildlife Services for a preserve?

Question

What rules and regulations are written in a 10a permit? What can you do and not do to the land if you have this permit?

Answer 1

A 10A permit refers to section 10A of the Endangered Species Act and typically provides for the taking of endangered or threatened wildlife species and/or engaging in certain commercial trade of endangered or threatened plants or removing such plants on property subject to federal jurisdiction.  In the technical sense that federal rules and regulations are published in the Code of Federal Regulations, not in a permit, there are no "rules and regulations" written in a 10A permit.  Obviously, a 10A permit may reference federal "rules and regulations" as well as containing restrictions upon which the issuance of the permit is conditioned.  What you can and cannot do to the land under the permit is governed by the terms of the permit, as well as other applicable law and regulations.

Perhaps a description of an example of a 10A permit will help illuminate these issues.  See:  http://www.meltonengineering.com/Indian%...