Birds and humans alike are in danger of eating lead ammunition left in hunted meat. Non-lead ammo is the solution and it's gaining traction with hunters.
Thank you for this valuable information. I come from rural roots. Most of the hunters I know are good people. I will share this article with some of them.
Growing up an animal lover in the boonies, Texas, this is giving me complicated feelings and I wanted to scream and throw something until I read your section about the hunter incentive programs. How do you illicit these extreme emotional responses from me? Homicidal rage to hugs - you have a real gift 😄.
Thank you for all of the awesome articles and information. There are many more things I want to say but I will focus on staying positive instead. I appreciate you so much.
Taxes on guns and ammunition fund American conservation to the tune of over $1 billion a year? Perhaps we should all hug a hunter - and beg them to stop shooting lead.
Thank you for this valuable information. I come from rural roots. Most of the hunters I know are good people. I will share this article with some of them.
Thank you for doing so!
Ammo
Free lead-free smmo.
Growing up an animal lover in the boonies, Texas, this is giving me complicated feelings and I wanted to scream and throw something until I read your section about the hunter incentive programs. How do you illicit these extreme emotional responses from me? Homicidal rage to hugs - you have a real gift 😄.
Thank you for all of the awesome articles and information. There are many more things I want to say but I will focus on staying positive instead. I appreciate you so much.
Me, too, on all the above.
Taxes on guns and ammunition fund American conservation to the tune of over $1 billion a year? Perhaps we should all hug a hunter - and beg them to stop shooting lead.
Thanks for sharing. I never would have thought that lead bullets would break apart and scatter so badly.
Amanda, you and your colleagues do such important work.
Thank you
This century old poem reads like prophecy:
Richard Wilbur 1921
Advice to a Prophet
When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city,
Mad-eyed from stating the obvious,
Not proclaiming our fall but begging us
In God's name to have self-pity,
Spare us all word of the weapons, their force and range,
The long numbers that rocket the mind;
Our slow, unreckoning hearts will be left behind,
Unable to fear what is too strange.
Nor shall you scare us with talk of the death of the race.
How should we dream of this place without us?—
The sun mere fire, the leaves untroubled about us,
A stone look on the stone's face?
Speak of the world's own change. Though we cannot conceive
Of an undreamt thing, we know to our cost
How the dreamt cloud crumbles, the vines are blackened by frost,
How the view alters. We could believe,
If you told us so, that the white-tailed deer will slip
Into perfect shade, grown perfectly shy,
The lark avoid the reaches of our eye,
The jack-pine lose its knuckled grip
On the cold ledge, and every torrent burn
As Xanthus once, its gliding trout
Stunned in a twinkling. What should we be without
The dolphin's arc, the dove's return,
These things in which we have seen ourselves and spoken?
Ask us, prophet, how we shall call
Our natures forth when that live tongue is all
Dispelled, that glass obscured or broken
In which we have said the rose of our love and the clean
Horse of our courage, in which beheld
The singing locust of the soul unshelled,
And all we mean or wish to mean.
Ask us, ask us whether with the worldless rose
Our hearts shall fail us; come demanding
Whether there shall be lofty or long standing
When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close.