Saving Seabirds in Washington State
Published August 12, 2009 @ 06:52AM PT
Could selectively logging trees in an old-growth forest actually help revive a threatened seabird? Conservancy biologist Tom Kollasch got this counterintuitive idea while he was watching marbled murrelets flying in Washington's Willapa National Wildlife Refuge. The murrelets - a threatened seabird that nests in old-growth forest - were circling small stands of old-growth trees that were blocked by younger trees.
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