Here's an incisive review of "The Double-crested Cormorant: a Feathered Pariah," a book I mentioned in an earlier post. Included is an assessment of the planned Columbia River extermination. As the reviewer here indicates, the book is a difficult read. The author, Linda Wires, painstakingly chronicles events in the history of culling cormorants, and counters arguments for such killing based on science not emotion. Too, seeing the political pressure put on the US Fish and Wildlife Service to initiate large culling programs, despite the Services own studies indicating such is not necessary, is truly disgusting. I had to put the book down for a while to continue reading it. The difference in treatment of the cormorants in the US and Canada, however, is enlightening. This is not light reading and it won't make any best-seller lists.
http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/08/04/the-double-crested-cormorant-plight-of-a-feathered-pariah/
Cheers,http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/08/04/the-double-crested-cormorant-plight-of-a-feathered-pariah/
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