Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:54:58 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Greg Downing Subject: Re: Shooting of Trumpeter Swan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm no expert on the bay, but it seems to me that to reintroduce a species and then later decide it was a mistake and shoot them dead is ridiculous! If it is a mistake then trap them and move them elsewhere! Don't reintroduce them and then say oops, sorry we made a mistake....boom. I do agree though that they probably should not have been brought here do to the current condition of the bay. Greg Downing Parkton, MD gregdowning@mindspring.com www.gdphotography.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================