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Wednesday
Apr292015

Damned if you do, damned if you don't

Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit to stop plans to shoot more than 10,000 double-crested cormorants in the Columbia River Estuary.

Bob Salinger of Audubon Society of Portland says killing the birds to stop them from eating millions of baby salmon is a diversion from the real threat — the hydroelectric dams that kill adult fish on their way to spawning grounds, and juveniles migrating to the ocean.

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Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2015/04/20/4251529_groups-sue-to-stop-plans-to-kill.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

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