(OH) Cleveland Plain Dealer – Since 2006, state wildlife officers have been shooting thousands of double-crested cormorants to prevent them from inundating several of the Lake Erie islands and denuding the landscape, threatening nesting egrets and herons and killing endangered plants.
“When we saw what was happening with the deterioration on Middle Island in Canada, we wanted to stop the problem before it became so bad that the damage would be irreparable,” said Dave Sherman, a wildlife biologist with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources based at the Crane Creek Wildlife Research Station in Ottawa County. More