Ban Lead Ammo For Condors    There is no better time than Earth
Day to than draw attention to one of our many environmental
disasters that are happening right now on our planet. This
involves our own state, and one of our most beloved areas.  It’s
astounding to me that 28 of the Grand Canyon region’s 80 condors
have been treated for blood poisoning over the same time period,
and that overall, 38 of the 166 condors reintroduced in Utah and
Arizona since 1996 have been killed by lead poisoning. Even the
Arizona Game and Fish Department indicates that lead toxicity
has been identified as the leading cause of death in condors in
the Arizona reintroduction program. Here’s the source for this
fact: http://www.  These avoidable deaths are just the latest
chapter in a growing body of evidence demonstrating that lead
bullets keep on poisoning and killing birds and other wildlife
long after the ammunition takes down their initial prey.  It
makes no sense that we’re allowing lead poisoning to continue
its assault on wil