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Trumpeter Swans: Don’t Shoot Them

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Many years ago, back in the 1970s, I visited my sister, who lived in West Yellowstone, Montana, in the dead of winter. They were heavily hunted as food, and for the feathers. The executive director of the Wildlife Rehab Center, Phil Jenni, isn’t sure if [a particular shooting] shooting was intentional. All of them. Or almost so.

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