Topic: Condors and Lead bullets

[High Wall]

Here we go again -

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/12/04/1904001/condor-recovery-program-beset.html

[ballardw]

Vanished = no body => no autopsy = no known cause of death.
Poor science all the way around.

[mikedamerell]

Natural selection works?  Survival of the fittest a good policy?  I remember when it was the chemicals in farming that were killing them off.  It is silly to try to over-rule mother nature when she decides that a species has served its purpose and it is time to move on.  I also think we should bring back lead paint because there are many of us that should not be breeding either.   

[Farlo]

According to a builder I once chatted with, lead flashing is still used in CA.  Squirrels, for whatever reason, like to eat it.  He had a good deal of business fixing squirrel damage.  Well, condors like to eat dead squirrels.  I seems to me a condor is going to pick up a LOT more lead from a squirrel eating roofing material than from any wounded game animals.