Tag: lead

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced 2022-2023 hunting and sport fishing regulations in early September, including new wildlife refuge-specific restrictions on lead ammunition and tackle, and the authorization of...

How do lead bullets compare with non-lead bullets, and what does that mean for wildlife? Lead fragments in gut piles left by hunters can be deadly to scavengers. For the...

House sparrows and humans have a lot in common. Sparrows nest on the same buildings where people live and work. They eat the scraps of food that humans drop on...

The Wildlife Society’s Council renewed and updated the organization’s Lead in Hunting Ammunition and Fishing Tackle position statement that was due to expire later this year. “The Wildlife Society has...

Lead poisoning is suppressing bald and golden eagle populations across the United States, researchers found, in what they say is the first study to show continent-wide, population-level impacts in the...

Bald eagles have made a remarkable recovery from the brink of extinction, but lead contamination diminished that recovery, researchers found, and it continues to leave the species more vulnerable to...

The Center for Biological Diversity challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2020 decision to expand hunting and fishing on 2.3 million acres across 147 National Wildlife Refuges and National...

Golden eagles that spend their winters in western Montana are overwhelmingly exposed to lead contamination. “Almost the entire population has been exposed to lead,” said Robert Domenech, executive director of...

The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management...

Lead ammunition is now banned for hunting wildlife in California. The new regulation is actually the final phase of a California law passed in 2013. The regulation came about at...