Ban lead bullets? Gimme a break!
By Shawn Perich.

Lead fragments turn up in tests of venison donated to food shelves and immediately we are cautioned not to feed venison to children and pregnant women. Wildlife officials say centerfire bullets are prone to “fragmentation,” apparently exploding into toxic lead shrapnel when they enter a deer. Wow. It’s a wonder hunters and their progeny weren’t lead poisoned into extinction long ago. more...

Moose Decline Puzzles Experts
Some of the moose are emaciated, while some of the bulls have poor antler development. Researchers haven’t put their finger on the cause, yet, but are working to narrow the possibilities as part of an ongoing study. And they’re hoping to do it so the herd in the northeast doesn’t turn out like the population in the northwest, which has dropped precipitously in recent years and now numbers fewer than 100 animals. more...

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Ban lead bullets? Gimme a break!
Lead fragments turn up in tests of venison donated to food shelves and immediately we are cautioned not to feed venison to children and pregnant women. Wildlife officials say centerfire bullets are prone to “fragmentation,” apparently exploding into toxic lead shrapnel when they enter a deer. Wow. It’s a wonder hunters and their progeny weren’t lead poisoned into extinction long ago. more...

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Apocalypse Deer!

Whop, whop, whop, whop. Bang!

Where are we? Hunkered down in some Third World hellhole? Nope, we’re exterminating deer in northwestern Minnesota. The Minnesota DNR recently called in the troops, so to speak, using airborne sharpshooters to wipe out whitetails in an area where bovine tuberculosis was found in cattle and deer.

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