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AB 1002: Lead Ammunition in California Condor Range

Please call or email the following Assemblymembers:

• Lois Wolk, (D-8, chair)
• Michael N. Villines (R-29, vice-chair)
• Joe Baca (D-62)
• Patty Berg (D-1)
• Rudy Bermúdez (D-56)
• Lynn Daucher (R-72)
• Mervyn M. Dymally (D-52)
• Bill Emmerson (R-63)
• Barbara S. Matthews (D-17)
• Bill Maze (R-34)
• Nicole Parra (D-30)
• Fran Pavley (D-41)
• Sharon Runner (R-36)
• Lori Saldaña (D-76)

To find out who your Assemblymember is, and their contact information, go directly to the Legislature's "Find Your Representatives" page and enter your address in the form in the bottom left corner of the page.

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Assemblymember _____________
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 94249

(Today's Date), 2005

Dear Assemblymember ___________,

Please support and vote yes for AB 1002 (Nava) in committee and on the Assembly floor.

AB 1002 will prohibit the use of lead ammunition in the range of the endangered California condor. Condors, as well as other large birds such as golden and bald eagles, are susceptible to lead poisoning from ingesting lead bullet fragments. Unequivocal evidence shows that condors, bald and golden eagles experience highly elevated lead blood levels as a result of ingesting lead ammunition.

Immediate conversion to the use of non-lead ammunition in condor habitat is practical, affordable, and long overdue. Alternatives to lead ammunition, including all-copper bullets in a variety of calibers and bullets whose lead cores are entirely encased in steel, are already widely available.

Again, I urge you to vote yes on AB 1002 and to do all you can to help ensure its passage in committee and on the floor.

Sincerely,

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