Posted on 12/10/2013 12:06:47 PM PST by RC one
California condors were nearly extinct by the 1980s. Thanks to habitat loss, wanton shooting, egg collecting, and the scavenger's propensity for eating animal carcasses tainted by lead bullet fragments, fewer than 30 remained. After decades of captive breeding, about 200 condors now fly free in central California, Utah, Arizona and Mexico. But death by lead poisoning remains a significant threat, preventing condor populations from flourishing without human intervention ("Getting the lead out," HCN, 5/5/07)
Followup On Oct. 11, California became the first state to ban lead ammunition for hunting, expanding a partial lead-ammo restriction in the bird's range. But the controversial rules won't fully go into effect until July 2019. The ban comes as the Los Angeles Zoo treated 21 condors for lead poisoning in October, a record high. Meanwhile, Utah and Arizona are trying to get the lead out with voluntary incentive programs for hunters.
This...its not about birds (in this case)...any cover will do. Its all about disarming the public.
Ammo seems pretty reasonable right now here in Ohio/Michigan. Reloading components seem to be back too for the most part, brass being the exception.
In other news, Obama gives the ok to kill eagles. What a world we live in.
Yes: They will ban lead to protect a buzzard, but they allow golden Eagles and Bald Eagles to be chopped up in their windmills.
Yep.
I will sound absolutely awful saying this but I hope everone of those birds is found dead under a stupid windmill. I grew up in Cali when the hysteria was at it’s peak. One of those birds made a nest in the area and the neighborhood was besieged. I can’t confirm but I would venture every farmer and property owner had sights on that bird to “shoot shovel and shutup.” If your property was one this bird even crapped on you were doomed.
By the way. 100s of millions dead Africans from malaria in exchange for 200 birds.
You are correct about the governance.....but we are
still California. The rumors about 100% of us being
libtards is highly exagerated.
Preferring to have the condors battered by the windmills, I reckon.
they’ve spent more to save this worthless ugly bird
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