....Anyone who knows anything about wildlife recognizes that we don't concern ourselves with the deaths of individual wild critters as long as the species remains healthy. (If we worried about individual deer, grouse, quail, rabbits, etc, then we could hardly justify hunting them.) But eagles, because they are so visible and because they are clearly harmed by ingesting lead, will be used to beat us over our collective heads. Like it or not . . . get used to it.
About all we can say, when the antis come after lead shot, is:....
I don't believe the thoughtful, measured approach works. As mentioned a bit ago, the wind turbine industry gets Bald Eagle, and other protected bird 'take' permits that get hardly a whimper of protest.
The 'like it or not...get used to it' folks are all on the same or similar pages. My 'feeling' is that something needs to trigger hunter's emotions to become engaged in the issues. Science keeps 'em at home on their easy chair. The ideologs 'know' wildlife, not the objective 'scientist'.
