Last week in California, Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law Assembly Bill 821, which bans the use of lead ammunition for hunting in the condor range, because the claim was that condors were suffering from lead poisoning. This was based purely on animal rights extremist, anti-hunting rhetoric rather than actual science.
Currently there's a raging wildfire in California, and the reports indicate that the fires are threatening the condor population and coule wipe them out.
Personally I find this ironic. California has banned lead ammunition for hunting because some people said it was threatening the condors with extinction. In less than a week's time they've now got a forest fire which might do just that. Basically they traded a non-threat for a genuine threat.
The Fool's Gold State just can't seem to win. Anytime they pass a ban, nature hits them hard within a very short amount of time afterwards.
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