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Game Reserve Bans Lead Bullets For Condors' Sake

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Feb 24, 2007 7:14 pm US/Pacific

Game Reserve Bans Lead Bullets For Condors' Sake

GORMAN, Calif. (AP) ― The state's largest private game reserve plans to ban the use of lead bullets out of concern the ammunition is poisoning the endangered California condor.

Robert A. Stine, president of the Tejon Ranch Company, said Friday that the ban at Tejon Ranch will go into effect for the 2008 hunting season.

The sprawling 270,000-acre ranch along Interstate 5 in Kern and Los Angeles counties is a favorite feeding and resting spot for the condor.

Stine said recent studies led him to conclude the birds were becoming sick or dying from lead poisoning after they consumed the remains of animals shot by hunters using lead bullets.

There are believed to be about 70 condors living in the wild in California.

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