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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. That’s what you do with other game, right? Most of the deer and duck hunters I know lament the loss of an old growth forest or flood-plain swamp as much as I do. Why not just shoot the biggest one? Likewise for the anglers.

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