Zinke Expands Hunters Access to Public Lands

[douglas9]

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Secretarial Order 3347 overturns the ban on lead ammunition and fishing tackle used on Fish and Wildlife Service lands and waters.

The ban was first enacted to reduce harmful effects on waterfowl and fish that ingest lead tackle or lead shotgun pellets. More than two dozen states have enacted laws that go beyond the federal restriction

Sarah Greenberger, the Audubon Society’s vice president of conservation and a former Interior Department official, said, “Lead ammo can kill birds long after it’s been fired from a gun. Banning toxic ammunition in wildlife refuges allowed species like the California Condor to return from the brink of extinction. If Secretary Zinke has concerns with the process through which the ban was implemented, Audubon looks forward to working with him in a new effort to protect birds and the places they need, using the best available science.”

http://www.courthousenews.com/zinke-expands-hunters-access-public-lands/

[Ilsa]

1. I hope Audubon can pin him down. Why the overturn of the ban?

Is it the lead industry? Overturning the ban makes no sense.

[IADEMO2004]

2. It's pissing on the dining room table because they can and what are you going to do about it.

When assholes band together and elect one of their own this is the result.

[Ilsa]

3. Ah. Just a power play. To hell with collateral damage. F@k 'em. nt

[IADEMO2004]

4. That's exactly how I see them. Mean out of control irrational assholes.

Science? What science laughing and back slapping all the way to total ruin.