Report on Lead at Shooting Ranges Professor Donald Rimstidt of the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech, who recently reported on a five-year study at a U.S. Forest Service range near Blacksburg, Va., said on the topic of lead mobility at this range, "We learned that [lead] is absorbed in the top few inches of soil and does not migrate beyond that. Lead is not very mobile. It does not wash away in surface or ground water." Rimstidt said he'll provide recommendations to the Forest Service so that it can develop best management practices at the range. "They already knew to put lime on the range to limit corrosion [and] to take measures to prevent soil erosion," Rimstidt said. The study reaffirms the efforts of the National Association of Shooting Ranges, which has been educating range owners and club managers that by taking the proper steps lead can be managed so that it does not pose a hazard to the environment. "The issue of lead is site-specific," said Rick Patterson, who heads up NASR, a division of NSSF. "That's why we encourage every range to evaluate its situation and to make use of the educational materials we developed." Read about the report in Science Daily.