http://blog.nwf.org/2011/06/video-michigans-hunters-and-anglers-urge-congress-to-protect-clean-air/ The National Wildlife Federation's blog Thu, 23 May 2013 20:37:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.nwf.org/2011/06/video-michigans-hunters-and-anglers-urge-congress-to-protect-clean-air/comment-page-1/#comment-11433 Mercury Impacts to Loons & Michigan Lakes Draws Thousands of Conservationists & Anglers : Wildlife Promise Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:36:53 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=24494#comment-11433 [...] is up to Michigan anglers and conservationists to tell Michigan Senators Carl Levin and Senator Debbie Stabenow that it is time to ensure the [...]

]]> http://blog.nwf.org/2011/06/video-michigans-hunters-and-anglers-urge-congress-to-protect-clean-air/comment-page-1/#comment-10457 Mannyman44 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:33:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=24494#comment-10457 This is great, but why don’t Michigan’s hunters and anglers – AND THE NWF – go fight to get lead out of ammo – look at these FACTS!!Where does the NWF stand? “God, what a depressing sight,” I declared when Pokras opened a freezer containing 10 bald eagles. Until these were necropsied it would be impossible to tell how many had died of plumbism. But Pokras pulled out a stiff male, head bent to wing in grotesque cockatiel pose and in whose gizzard an X-ray had revealed 12 fragments. Another bird had appeared fragment free, but she’d lived long enough to yield a blood sample that contained more lead than the machine could measure. Most lead-poisoned raptors the clinic necropsies contain no fragments because they’ve been ground up in the gizzard and dissolved by stomach acid, or, after delivering usually fatal doses, regurgitated with compacted pellets of skin and bone.Fifteen more bald eagle carcasses would be arriving from Maine when the clinic finished with these, and for every one found, dozens probably die unseen. But Tufts sees few eagles compared with wildlife hospitals in the West and Midwest. The University of Minnesota’s Raptor Center in St. Paul received 117 lead-poisoned bald eagles during the winter of 2009–2010. Director Julia Ponder explains that if you can observe symptoms, it’s usually too late to save the bird. Of the 46 that were visibly symptomatic, 38 died or were euthanized. In one Montana study, 85 percent of golden eagles and 97 percent of bald eagles sampled had elevated blood-lead levels.http://www.audubonmagazine.org/incite/incite1105.htmlNWF has to face this fundamental double standard! or will this post be removed, too?

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