Feds approved killing birds to save fish, despite warning it wouldn't work

Monday, August 17, 2015 at 12:00AM
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In an effort to protect endangered salmon and steelhead the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved plans to kill double-crested cormorants nesting on an island at the mouth of the Columbia River despite internal research showing the plan wouldn't work.

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