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News and Opinion
EDITORIAL: THE CASE FOR LARGE PREDATORS
Published: Saturday, July 23, 2011, 4:03 PM
by The Oregonian Editorial Board
New research adds insight to the debate in Oregon over wolves and cougars
A new international study of the ecosystem consequences of killing off large predators deserves attention in a state where livestock owners, hunting groups and others continually seek to reduce the number of cougars and fight the reintroduction of wolves.
A paper in a recent edition of the journal Science reveals that the human inclination to exterminate the so-called apex predators atop the food chain causes a cascade of unintended and poorly understood ecosystem changes...
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