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Shutting Your Trap

10,000 Birds

I knew the wildlife. I have a book about injured wildlife coming out soon, and I couldn’t buy better publicity.”. Not only did we convince the local head of PRH that DEC was horning in on his territory, we managed to drag the president of the nearby Fish and Game Club – who personally detested trapping – into the fray.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

That’s what you do with other game, right? You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. So we can squawk at the state wildlife departments all we want, but the USFWS has the final say. It flies on. Street, N.W.

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