Thanks for your efforts, Ted. During my almost 5 years as a resident of Wisconsin, the Natural Resources Board made a similar attempt. They floated a proposal about banning lead shotshells on all DNR-managed lands. Fortunately, Wisconsin has an interesting program under which annual meetings are held by the DNR in every county in the state. At those meetings, attendees get to vote on changes proposed by the DNR and the Natural Resources Board. The statewide vote on that lead ban proposal was 1,979 yes, 2,726 no. And of all the items on that evening's agenda at the meeting I attended, that lead ban provoked more commentary from attendees than anything else. Politicians do tend to listen when there's a public response of that nature.
Will be interested in hearing what the MN DNR does.
