Wash. biologist hazes swans away from deadly lead

The answer is 3-fold:

1. ban lead shot, period ( it doesn't matter if it's legal for killing quail, if it's poisoning everyone else, too )

2. work out exactly HOW to clean out a small area of the lake ( 1 person, 2-3 days worth, ie a Weekend/Long-Weekend ), possibly using a cheap metal-detector-wand sealed in a plastic vacuum-bag, without demolishing the ecology by trampling it to death. ( maybe waving it crossways to its latest "hit" would identify where on its length it located the piece )

3. set a web-site where volunteers can
a) train ( games are training-simulation, use a cheap/low-HW-requirement OSS engine, have IT volunteers create the simulation, it needn't be detailed, but only train/show what need be done, and what need be avoided ) the volunteer until they "get" it...
b) assign them a spot in dire need of cleaning, and...
c) record their lead-catch as their "score" on the web-site.

Have each area gone-over twice, 2 overlapping grids, so the lake doesn't end up with a grid of not-done areas, and make certain each area is done repeatedly until no more lead is coming out of it.

You'd be providing payment by Recognition/renoun for the ones making the difference,
you'd be getting the work done with only budgetary allocation for coordination/development, and...
you'd be setting in place a prototype for all other volunteer cleanup/improvements of our worst insults against our beloved world, among whom we live.

Track it right ( programmer's term Instrumentation ), and you'll discover what need be improved for the next project/iteration.

We CAN earn healthy living-world, IF we do what need be done, now ( rather than "later" ).

Allowing our children living-world would be a Good Thing, yes?

Cheers,

Bravo, Mr. Dent