and also in related news: Obama Administration Allows Killing of Federally Protected Eagles
And just in time, too! I understand the California Condor is already extinct here in Wisconsin!
Chop ‘em up with windmills, though.
The criminal element could care less about this ban.
Maybe they should raze all houses built during the lead-paint era. If a California Condor is stupid enough to eat a bullet, it might be stupid enough to eat flaking paint.
Wait till those electric generating windmills whack a few condors!
Reminds me of some government somewhere who banned farming to save a bird. So the people went out and killed all those birds so they could farm again.
The headline is a bit misleading since it doesn’t mention the ban is only for hunting. If you didn’t read to the second paragraph you wouldn’t know that.
Will they let you go back to using lead bullets after the windmills kill all the condors?
What about the wind-farms?
I bet there are all sorts of non-lead bullets that can knock a condor out of the air!
Again with the condors?! Shouldn’t they have all died by now?
“the scavenger’s propensity for eating animal carcasses tainted by lead bullet fragments”
This would suggest that hunters are leaving mulie carcases on their hunts? I need to see a little more data before I’ll accept that there are enough bullet-riddled animal carcases to be a problem.
But non-hunters might believe this.
Isn’t a condor simply a vulture with better PR?
My cousin was born in San Diego, has lived there all his life (60 years+) and loves to hunt and shoot. He’s had enough and is moving out.
Condors, a big, ugly, carrion-eater.
People are more important than animals.
KYPD
Will this cause a drop in ammo prices?
In other news, Obama gives the ok to kill eagles. What a world we live in.
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.
Preferring to have the condors battered by the windmills, I reckon.