Gone With The Cormorants

[RileyVacinek]

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141118-shooting-cormorants-columbia-river-salmon-endangered-species-environment/
Im hoping for an open season across the country...
I feel bad for the researchers that have to go near that area to count the birds. The numbers of steelhead these birds are eating only adds to the hate I already have for these winged rats. (Sorry to offend any cormorant lovers out there if there is such a thing)

[johnjarosz(jj)]

A very interesting article, Riley, which brings up a good question of how much should people manage, interfere, change, manipulate, save, or whatever it wants to be called, the environment. I still remember when I was going to ES&F in 1971 & in one of my first classes on resource management, we discussed how much people should try to change what happens in nature. One of the topics we discussed was Niagara Falls eroding away. How much should the Corps try to stop that? The problem is that, like the article stated, people are also responsible for creating some of these situations (climate change).
I liked the question that was aksed: "who decides what goes & what stays?" Like any discussion, there are at least two sides. I wish I had an answer but I'm not even close.

[Rick Walczyk]

The past couple of years they have even showed up at Rushford Lake. They seem to hang out by the dam where most of the trout congregate.