Subject: Lead Shot
Date: Jul 27 06:40:32 1995
From: Dale Goble - gobled at uidaho.edu



Apropos the above thread: I was just reading a 1985 federal district
court case, National Wildlife Federation v. Hodel, in which NWF was
seeking to ban the use of lead shot in California, Oregon, Illinois,
Missouri, and Oklahoma.

At trial, NWF introduced evidence that 96 Bald Eagles had died of lead
poisoning between 1976 and 1984 and that 23 had died in 1984. It was
presumed that the Eagles ingested the lead by eating waterfowl that had
been shot and not recovered.

The court enjoined the use of the lead shot as a violation of the
Endangered Species Act.

dale goble
moscow, idaho