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May 14, 2013

Corps stops killing gulls on Columbia

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided that it is not going to continue killing gulls that have been eating all the baby Caspian terns at a nesting colony at the mouth of the Columbia River.

The point of the environmental assessment issued Monday was whether the continued failure of the tern colony on East Sand Island to produce young would drive the birds to return to another island upstream, where they consumed millions of baby salmon.


 
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