Posted on 02/04/2017 6:16:32 PM PST by Mariner
Tiani Williams has spent hours hiding near the stinking remains of road-killed deer. When the stench attracts a turkey vulture into her wire trap, she throws a flannel sheet over the bird and starts a series of tests aimed at her real goal: Returning the California condor to her Yurok ancestral lands in the state’s northwest corner. Jane Braxton Little
Today her objective is within sight. The Yurok tribe, the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have launched a formal review of a project that could see America’s largest land bird flying over the North Coast’s redwoods as early as next year.
It’s a gamble whose success, ironically, depends on hunters.
Gymnogyps californianus was tottering on the brink of extinction in the 1980s, when the population of the entire species was reduced to a mere 22 individuals. Today, thanks to a $5 million-a-year federal recovery program, condor numbers have climbed to more than 400, over half of them foraging in the wilds of Central and Southern California, Arizona, Utah and Baja, Mexico.
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Thanks for the link. That does shed some new light on it.
I didn’t realize galvanized screws and the like was a problem.
I guess they like the shiny aspect of them.
Thanks for posting the HuntForTruth.org site. It is a most useful resource.
just in time for the tribulation times too-
Yurok Ping...
It’s real. I have a friend who works with the Condors. The lead is a real issue. I’m not a huge condor fan (sometimes animals go extinct and I can handle it) but apparently eating animals with lead bullets does poison the big birds.
Yes, thanks for this. My friend who studies and tracks condors is a bleeding heart lib. So this means that in her university affiliated job, they are all not willing to accept any other sources of lead. Because I’ve heard her say the ammunition reason and no other.
“settled science” I get it.
So I stand corrected on what I said in my previous.
“This is a scam to make it hard for gun owners to shot and hunt is all.”
I guess everyone is as shocked as I am.
“They are dishonestly conflating lead shot for fowl with jacketed bullets for game.”
I’ve always been suspicious of the justification for banning lead shot, too.
This would mean that hunters were wounding an awful lot of wildlife, and not killing them.
Something is fishy here.
Bird ping...
Lead shot is bad for the environment, that is indisputable.
Jacketed Lead bullets are probably not.
Thanks!
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