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DEC wants mute swans killed or captured by 2025
VERA CHINESE FILE PHOTO | The DEC aims to kill or capture all mute swans by 2025. Citing “aggressive behavior towards people” and “destruction of submerged aquatic vegetation,” the state Department of...
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DEC backtracks on plan to kill, capture all mute swans
A mute swan mother with her cygnets in East Marion. (Credit: Katharine Schroeder) After getting pushback from lawmakers and thousands of residents, state environmental officials are considering major...
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Grossman: The DEC at its worst with mute swans
Hands down, what is the dumbest thing the Department of Environmental Conservation has ever come up with? How about the DEC’s plan to slaughter 2,200 beautiful, elegant, graceful birds, the total...
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NYS lawmakers agree: Let’s not kill the swans
Legislation has passed both houses of the New York State legislature that would prioritize non-lethal methods of killing free-ranging mute swans. (Credit: Vera Chinese) It looks like the swans won’t be...
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Under DEC’s revised plans, mute swans could be killed as ‘last resort’
A mute swan mother with her cygnets in East Marion last year. (Credit: Katharine Schroeder, file) A newly revised state Department of Environmental Conservation plan to deal with mute swan populations...
View ArticleFeatured Letter: In defense of the mute swans
To the editor: The New York State Department of Conservation can start killing and mutilating (amputating) wings of healthy wild mute swans if the mute swan bill passed by the state Senate does not get...
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