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Perhaps the most emotional issue involving Arnett is his unyielding stand on the fatal ingestion by waterfowl of spent lead shotgun pellets that hunters scatter in marshlands. Hair, a wildlife biologist, and other environmentalists say that the lead-shot toll may be as high as 4 million ducks annually. They contend that the deaths could be avoided by switching to steel pellets. Arnett's answer: "It's not that easy." Accepting the argument of many hunters that the lighter steel pellets have less stopping power and that consequently more ducks would be injured, he has cut back...
...estimated at $20 million to $30 million, could go as high as $264 million this year. Salt water has begun to eat away at the dikes protecting the nine wildlife refuges that rim the lake; about 4,000 acres of fresh-water marsh, home to some 7 million waterfowl and countless shore birds, have been destroyed by the briny advance. Utah officials are considering several solutions, including dams to catch spring snow runoff and an enlargement of the culverts through the railway causeway that slices the lake in half...
...handed out a bit of additional culinary advice. On Oct. 3 the hunting season will open, except in eight eastern counties where the geese seem to be carrying particularly high levels of endrin. But pregnant women and nursing mothers all over the state were enjoined not to eat waterfowl, and everyone else was told to down no more than one duck or a pound of goose a week-or, at most, six ducks a year. As for preparation: pour off the meat drippings, discard the skin, and don't stuff the duck...
...spring to spawn. Indeed, biologists say that there has already been a drop-off in the number of fish in streams intersecting the Haul Road. Gravel and dust can be another problem. Tossed onto the permafrost by car wheels, they cause the snow to melt early in the spring. Waterfowl then nest prematurely in these moist spots and lose their young to frost...
...once an area of wooded mountains and fertile farm land, was a wasteland pock-marked with bomb craters and shell holes. But in 25 years those scars have begun to heal. Abandoned rice terraces have turned into marshes, which are a favorite feeding ground for waterfowl. Old tank traps overgrown with weeds serve as cover for rabbits. Untamed thickets provide a refuge for herds of Asian river deer, each a small (3 ft. high) fanged version of its North American cousin...