“It’s like everyone brought a friend”

High Country News with a very thorough examination of the current sea lion problem on the Columbia.

These days, more than 300,000 California sea lions roam U.s. Waters.This population is probably at a higher abundance level now than at any time in the last 10 to 12,000 years,” says Bob DeLong, a marine mammal biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

LINK (via:HCN)