No, the NPS is to ban all lead by 2010.
http://www.gunsandhunting.com/forum/blog/guysagi/index.php?showentry=150
Lead Ban in National Parks?
Posted by GuySagi, Mar 12 2009, 07:47 PM
“Our goal is to eliminate the use of lead ammunition and lead fishing tackle in parks by the end of 2010,” said Acting National Park Service Director Dan Wenk in a
press release issued yesterday. “We want to take a leadership role in removing lead from the environment.”
I’m pretty naïve, but does the second sentence mean NPS is going to start mining for naturally occurring galena? If so, we’ve gotta dig everywhere, and if we hit the mother lode of all veins—at today’s lead prices—the cost of this recurring bailout déjà vu is covered.
More serious politicos, though, think it’s an indictment of
hunting. The fact that the press release broke a cardinal editing rule in this sentence may have been subliminal, but it lends credence to more knowledegable observations: “Rangers and resource managers will use non-lead ammunition to prevent environmental contamination as well as lead poisoning of scavenger species who may eventually feed upon the carcass.” I hate to break it to low-level boilerplate bureaucrats, but animals are not people, therefore the underlined word should have been “that,” unless of course you think animals have human rights.
If enacted, it would impact hunting on the 20 million acres in 60 different areas managed by the NPS.