Agency to Release|Endangered Cranes

WASHINGTON (CN) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to reintroduce endangered whooping cranes into southwestern Louisiana, to establish a nonmigratory flock.The plan is to release them into historic breeding grounds near White Lake in Vermilion Parish, in hopes that they make a permanent home there.     A proposal provides a plan for establishing the population, and allows for incidental injury to the birds while establishing the population.     Birds also may be released at additional sites “to provide a broader distribution of territorial males” for the females to search for, according to the proposal. Those sites depend on where the females from the first group search for mates.     Click the document icon for this regulation and others.