So, why are they targeting hunters specifically and not including eagles eating fish with lead sinkers in their guts? The wolf quota had been reached in Region 3 in MT, that had already been established. There's absolutely NOTHING the hunting community can do that will ever be considered good enough for the pro-wolf groups. Nothing. There's enough wolves, confirmed through camera studies, in Idaho alone to meet the entire ESA delisting requirement for the entire northern Rockies region. They still file suit after suit, most with public funding through the EAJA. Wolf numbers are growing, raptor populations are increasing, not decreasing. Name one instance where we have acquiesced to the antis demands and they have stopped there and not used it as a stepping stone to more restrictions.
That's the thing, it's not a 3% loss. It's a 3% reduction in the growth rate of the population.
There's a closed mine less than a mile from my house that was once owned by Henry Ford. Lead for his car batteries is what he was after, silver and gold were byproducts. Earthquake in early 80s ruptured an underground water table and flooded it quicker than pumps at the time could remove it. Creek flows right through the mine site and dumps into the Salmon river less than a half mile downstream. Bald eagles and other raptors are a daily occurrence right on this stretch of the river. Still want to think that lead can't come from another source other than bullets?
Nope, they report having evidence 1 condor ingested a lead projectile, for the rest they appear to be assuming the fragments found originated from ammunition. AGAIN isotope typing is a correlation, not proof. You seem to be having a very very difficult time understanding that fact.
And we remember this.....
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There are lead veins visible to the naked eye all around where I live... above a river loaded with eagles... it's not a stretch at all for them to ingest naturally occurring lead from the environment.
No, you are being as biased as the supposed researchers and trying to mislead people here, or you just do not understand what you are reading, you chose.
Too late, you were already convicted of murder, sentenced to life without parole, and now serving that sentence.
Too late, you were already convicted of murder, sentenced to life without parole, and now serving that sentence.
Yeah I know, it may have been one of your identical twins, maybe not, but clearly coming to a conclusion, as these so called researchers is disingenuous to say the least.
So says a guy that can't get what other guys actually said.
Oh come on now, scientists don't have agendas, they just present unbiased facts.
