Oregon wants to kill endangered birds

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GRANTS PASS — Oregon officials were successful in getting permission to kill sea lions that feed on protected salmon trying to swim upriver to spawn. Now they want federal approval to shoot a sea bird that eats millions of baby salmon trying to reach the ocean.

In an April 5 letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service obtained by The Associated Press, Oregon Wildlife Chief Ron Anglin says harassment has “proved insufficient” in controlling double-crested cormorants, and officials want the option of killing some of the birds.

Oregon needs federal approval to start shooting double-crested cormorants because the birds are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
 
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Oregon needs federal approval to start shooting double-crested cormorants because the birds are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Neither cormorants nor sea lions are endangered species.

Game/fish management needs to be based on sound practice and science, not on politics. Sure, cormorants and sea lions do prey on salmon, no question, and there are a lot of both. What preys on sea lions? Great whites and killer whales mainly. What has happened to the great whites? People have caught a lot of them. Fewer great whites, more sea lions, fewer salmon, which also feed the killer whales. Everything is connected.

Pick up one thing in nature, and you'll see that it's connected to everything else. There was a big commotion over wolves in Yellowstone. Reintroducing wolves helped the riparian habitat by increasing the growth of streamside willows. How? Because the elk went to higher ground to be able to watch for wolves, and didn't eat so many streamside willows. Result: More shade, cooler water, and therefore trout more because of wolves.

Mountain lions in California haven't been hunted for a couple of decades now. One result? Trying to reintroduce the bighorn sheep has hit a snag, because of predation by mountain lions.

Trout were removed from some of the High Sierra lakes here in order to give the yellow legged frog, an endangered species, a chance to rebuild. There may or may not be more frogs now, but there are more birds.

Interesting. Why, you ask? Because both birds and trout eat bugs.

It's all connected. Scientific game management is the only way to go.
 
Neither cormorants nor sea lions are endangered species.

Game/fish management needs to be based on sound practice and science, not on politics. Sure, cormorants and sea lions do prey on salmon, no question, and there are a lot of both. What preys on sea lions? Great whites and killer whales mainly. What has happened to the great whites? People have caught a lot of them. Fewer great whites, more sea lions, fewer salmon, which also feed the killer whales. Everything is connected.

Pick up one thing in nature, and you'll see that it's connected to everything else. There was a big commotion over wolves in Yellowstone. Reintroducing wolves helped the riparian habitat by increasing the growth of streamside willows. How? Because the elk went to higher ground to be able to watch for wolves, and didn't eat so many streamside willows. Result: More shade, cooler water, and therefore trout more because of wolves.

Mountain lions in California haven't been hunted for a couple of decades now. One result? Trying to reintroduce the bighorn sheep has hit a snag, because of predation by mountain lions.

Trout were removed from some of the High Sierra lakes here in order to give the yellow legged frog, an endangered species, a chance to rebuild. There may or may not be more frogs now, but there are more birds.

Interesting. Why, you ask? Because both birds and trout eat bugs.

It's all connected. Scientific game management is the only way to go.


yeah but salmon is an in dustry
 
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The econuts in California kill more endangered birds than anyone with all their wind farms. They also kill a lot of turtles and other creatures with their solar panels.
 
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