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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal
wildlife officials say they are drafting a
proposal to take the brown pelican off the
endangered species list in Louisiana — the
Pelican State — and Texas, some 40 years
after the bird was nearly wiped out by DDT.
In the spring, more than 16,000 pairs of
the big bird are expected to nest on
Louisiana’s barrier islands, where 1,276
fledglings imported from Florida replaced
the flocks that crowded the coast in the first
half of the last century.
“It’s really pretty neat, the way
they’ve done so well,” said Tom Hess, the
state biologist in charge of Louisiana’s
nesting census.
Last year, he said, 16,405 nesting pairs
produced 34,641 young, compared with
13,766 pairs and 22,650 fledglings in 2000.
In Texas, 2,400 pairs nested last year.
While wildlife officials are seeking to
have the birds removed from the federal
endangered list in both states, Edith
Ersling of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
office in Clear Lake, Texas, said similar
proposals have been pushed aside by more
urgent concerns.
Like many other birds, pelicans were
almost wiped out by the pesticide DDT.
which caused them to lay eggs with shells
too thin to protect developing embryos.
By the middle of the 20th century,
the only sustainable populations were
in Florida, where the first national
wildlife refuge was created in 1903 on
Pelican Island.
In 1968 — six years after Louisiana’s
last wild nest had been found and four years
before DDT was banned — the state began
bringing fledglings in from Florida.
Between then and 1980, Hess said,
1,276 fledglings were released at three
sites. State workers went out every day and
fed the birds until they could fly and catch
their own food. By then, the islands*:
their home.
From 1984 to 1986, fledglings dev
ed from those birds were taken (■
Queen Bess Island, one of the ■
colonies, to other areas.
Twenty years ago, they were a rarev.
Now' you can see one or more almost,
time you cross the Lake Pontcharr
Causeway or take a ferry across
Mississippi. Scores crowd breakwater
the lake’s north shore.
In 1998, Hurricane Georges rippe:
Louisiana’s barrier islands. The ?
count the next year dropped by air
half, but rebounded.
“It’s not because the birds wereki
it’s just because they’re very tradition:
they like to go back to the same placo
after year,” said Janies Harris, chief b
gist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Sen.
seven refuges in southeast Louisiana.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A coalition of
scieritists and technology companies is asking
people around the world to use their comput
ers’ extra processing power to help search for a
cure for anthrax.
The project follows similar efforts to use “dis
tributed computing” to hunt for extraterrestrial
life and a cure for cancer.
This effort is being launched Tuesday to help
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The project is based on the premise that the
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Participants download a screen-saver that runs
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Scientists have discovered
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teract a protein involved in the growth of
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