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EMPIRE -- Dead birds and fish again are washing up in waves at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. And park biologist Ken Hyde is concerned that this year's die-off of
gulls, loons, ducks and cormorants affects more species, particularly
the endangered piping plover. "One sad thing is we lost four piping plovers," Hyde said. "That is
a concern to us because we are trying to increase their populations ...
and now we have one more thing that impacts them or can kill them.
The loons in particular I think a lot of our members would be concerned about," he said. "
Do any of us really have the luxury of picking which critters would concern us the most. Loons? Plovers? Cormorants? At the end of the day, the end of the chain, the end of nature, don't they all matter? Don't they all warrant our concern?
Posted by: michelle | August 30, 2007 at 08:59 PM