Poisoned Wildlife and Tainted Meat: Why Hunters Are Moving Away From Lead Bullets

Ed Hughes, left, and Leland Brown laugh over old hunting stories after a successful elk hunt, at the Nature Conservancy’s Zumwalt Prairie Preserve in Imnaha, Ore., Sept. 19, 2018. More and more hunters are making the transition to copper bullets amid mounting evidence that lead bullets are poisoning the wildlife that feed on carcasses and polluting the game meat that many people eat. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)