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Dove Hunting Survey Will Probe Attitudes About Lead Ammunition

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Hunters should be aware that some of them may soon be getting a dove hunting survey in the mail.

The survey is a cooperative effort by the state fish and wildlife agencies, all four flyway councils, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Topics will include time spent hunting, demographics, constraints to hunting, and thoughts about potential effects of spent lead from hunting ammunition on mourning doves and other wildlife. The National Dove Hunter Survey is scheduled to begin in late June 2012 and will be completed by the end of the year.

Hunters’ attitudes about lead ammunition will be particularly important in this survey, since attempts to ban or severely restrict lead ammunition for hunting are far from over. Anyone who supports such bans will pore through the survey looking for anything that could help their position.

In fact, doves are one of the keynote species involved in attempts to ban lead ammunition.

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