The right to hunt doves in Iowa has been a loud, long, and hard-fought battle, and dove hunting enthusiasts got their first season this past year.

And while animal rights activists were upset that the Iowa dove hunt was legalized in the first place, they next went after hunter’s lead ammunition. But, in the end, hunters were allowed to use lead last year, but the Sierra Club is trying to change the regulation for this year.

According to Radio Iowa, the Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit, saying that Iowa’s Administrative Rules Review Committee did not have the power to remove the non-toxic ammunition regulation that was passed by the Natural Resources Commission. The Sierra Club says that the lead “gets into the water — groundwater — and run off into the surface water.”

However, the National Shooting Sports Foundation repeatedly stresses that there is “no sound scientific evidence that the use by hunters of traditional ammunition is causing harm to wildlife populations.”

A law legalizing the use of lead for dove hunting in Iowa has already passed the state House, and is currently under consideration for in the Senate.

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