Remove the exclamation marks from the example when using those commands. Buffalo News Purple loosestrife sends beautiful, purple-pink blossoms skyward in a tapering cone, but to ecologists it is the botanical equivalent of the zebra mussel, driving out native vegetation and degrading wetland habitat. In a major victory for birds, President Clinton signed into law the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act, the only bill in this Congress directed at helping songbirds. Full Story Comment on this story in the News Forum National Park Service hosting public forum tonight to save endangered piping plover. The sight of a majestic griffon vulture cruising low over the bay brought tourists and locals running from the bar, their drinks forgotten.
Anglers say the birds have devastated fish populations- and in some cases, the local economy.
Until recently, scientists weren't sure why cormorants were having such a large effect. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Karen Kelly reports on new research that may point to an answer. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled on July 18 that the USDA cannot conduct goose roundups or any other type of migratory bird killing program without a permit issued by the Department's Fish and Wildlife Service. In 1997 the Clinton Administration ruled that the USDA and other federal agencies could kill otherwise protected migratory birds without permits. About 35 curious onlookers applauded as two city engineers went out on a limb to rescue a young Brandt's cormorant dangling upside down by its leg underneath Granville Street Bridge Sunday morning.