I'd also like to thank a couple Montanans for their stand on this issue, the two of five Commissioners who voted for the lead birdshot prohibition on the state's two major wetland-based upland hunting areas.

One, reponding to the charge that there was no "site specific" data that lead birdshot was harming waterfowl said "you don't need to drop a match into a can of gasoline to know what is going to happen." The other said the decision to ban lead is "biologically correct" and took issue with a suggestion that his support for it was based on "political correctness."