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Rob Domenech and his research associates didn't know what they were looking for when they started testing the blood of golden eagles along Montana's Rocky Mountain Front three years ago.

What they found was lead, in some cases, lots of it.

"This was kind of a shock to us," he said in an interview from his Missoula office. "We never considered it."

Domenech, executive director of Raptor View Research Institute, was one of hundreds of people to send comments to the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission in what has become a controversial trigger-point: a proposal to ban lead shot at state wildlife management areas.

The commission meets here Thursday to consider on the idea.