In wetter climes it is already gone Ron. The sea eagles in the Patuxent River in MD are successfully nesting again and have done so since the late sixties. Dry climates will be affected much longer I'm afraid. George Ron Hay wrote: > > Good morning, friends, > > I think DDT will be with us until after the next ice age. DDT was banned > in CA years and years ago, but it is still killing our shore birds, and > even the condors that have bee re-introduced into the wilds of the Sespe > area. Its adamantine persistence, I fear, will be the death of many > animals, of whatever nature, yet unborn, for many years, which is a > great tragedy. > > Ron