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Star Tribune Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:44:11 GMT
Federal wildlife officials plan to kill blackbirds' cattail habitat for sunflower farmers

BISMARCK, N.D. - Federal wildlife officials will target entire parcels of cattail-choked wetlands in North Dakota this year to kill the preferred habitat of sunflower-scarfing blackbirds. Some 60,000 acres of cattail marshes in North Dakota have been destroyed since 1991 to try to keep blackbirds at bay, said Phil Mastrangelo, state director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services agency.

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