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Information on Lead Rifle Bullet Fragments

 

 

 

General Information

  

 

State Health Warnings

  

 

Non-Lead Ammo Performance

 

 

Beringia South Research Reports

  

 

Other Lead Bullet & Wildlife Research

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Information

 

Living Bird Magazine article that chronicles the lead bullet issue with birds

 

ABC News Video on Condor Mortality from Lead Fragments

 

 

Assignment Earth News Video

 

Park Service and USFWS Ask Hunters to go Lead-Free

 

 

 

 

State Health Warnings

 

  

Wyoming Department of Health Precautions for Eating Game Harvested with Lead Ammunition

 

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Information on Lead Ammuntion

 

North Dakota Department of Health Information on Lead in Venison

 

Colorado Division of Wildlife Recommendation for Reducing Lead in Meat

   

Minnesota DNR Lead Information for Hunters

 

 

 

 

Ammunition Performance

 

  

Field Trials of Copper vs. Lead Bullets     

 

Arizona Hunter Survey of Non-Lead Ammo Performance  


                                                                                                                             

 

 

 


Beringia South Research Reports on Lead

 

Craighead, D. and B. Bedrosian. 2008. Blood lead levels of Common Ravens with access to big-game offal. Journal of Wildlife Management. 72:240-245. PDF

 

Craighead, D. and B. Bedrosian. 2009.  A relationship between blood lead levels of Common Ravens and the hunting season in the Southern Yellowstone Ecosystem. In R.T. Watson, M. Fuller, M. Pokras, and. W.G. Hunt. (Eds).  Ingestion of Lead From Spent Ammunition: Implications for Wildlife and Humans. The Peregrine Fund. Boise, ID, USA. PDF

 

Bedrosian, B., C. Parish, and D. Craighead. 2009. Difference in blood lead levels detections techniqies: Analysis among and between three techniques and four avian species. In R.T. Watson, M. Fuller, M. Pokras, and. W.G. Hunt. (Eds).  Ingestion of Lead From Spent Ammunition: Implications for Wildlife and Humans. The Peregrine Fund. Boise, ID, USA. PDF

 

Craighead Beringia South. 2010. Removing lead from our wildlife and wildlands: 2009 Interim Report. PDF.

 

 

                                                                  

                                                           

 Other Reports

 

 

 

Peregrine Fund Radiographs of Lead Bullet Fragmentation in Deer from Wyoming 


Conference  Proceedings    Injestion of Lead Ammunition: Implications for Wildlife and Humans