Thank you for being interested in helping California Condor.

Please send a letter such as this to fgc@dfg.ca.gov

Thanks....Dov

To: Fish and and Game Commission,
I believe that any steps we can take at this point to protect our wildlife is worth taking. The California Condor has made a dramatic recovery, from the time when there were but 22 birds in the world.
That number was so low, partly because of the deadly lead that the condors ingested with their food. the lead came from bullets from guns. Recently 5 birds died again, probably due to lead poisoning. Others were saved, but now it is necessary to capture birds and clean out their system from lead.
It seems it is wise to keep the lead out of the wild, out of the bullets, then the birds won't die and won't have to be captured.
It may cost the hunter a little more money, but it won't cost the tax payer more, and it will be worth it to the future of our ecosystems.
Now we face the same challenge we faced in 1987 when there were but 22 condors, to keep lead out of bullets in the wild. These lead bans have been established to protect water foul which protects the bald eagle, and this same ban needs to be established to keep our amazing California Condor from going extinct.
Please move swiftly and ban lead shot in any areas where Condors are now flying freely.

Do not let the great work of the Condor keepers, and the million year legacy of the Condor be threatened.
Please, take steps now to ban lead..
Thanks
Gary Dov Gertzweig
Co-Founder, VP The Earth Harmony Foundation

Please see below information..http://www.ecology.info/condors.htm
The greatest threat to the California Condor today comes from lead poisoning (Pattee et al. 1990; Meretsky et al. 2000, 2001; Snyder and Snyder 2000).  When condors eat animals that hunters kill with lead bullets or lead shot, they often ingest the lead along with the meat.  Over time, the amount of lead in the condors' bodies increases because the birds have no natural mechanisms for removing lead from their bodies.  Eventually, the lead concentrations become so high that the condors die. 
During 1980's, California Condors died so frequently from lead poisoning that the government captured the last remaining individuals for captive breeding, because it could see no practical way to protect the condors from this poisoning (Bessinger 2002).  Starting in the 1990's and continuing through the present, some of the captured condors and their captive-bred young have been released back into the wild, with the hope that they will establish new, viable populations.  Unfortunately, because ammunition containing lead continues to be sold and used by hunters in areas where condors are released, wild condors are once again dying at very high rates from lead poisoning.  Meretsky et al. (2001) conclude that the current death rates are so high that they approach the "disastrous mortality rates" of the 1980's and so are unsustainable.
The problem of lead poisoning could be solved by requiring hunters to use ammunition made of non-toxic substances, like TTB (tin, tungsten, bismuth) composites, and to forbid stores from selling ammunition made of lead.  Phasing out lead in ammunition, as was done for lead in paint and gasoline, would benefit not only condors but other wildlife species and humans as well (Beissinger 2002).