Pelican problems

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I think they are still working on getting a handle on the pelican problem. The best card they can play with the feds is that the pelicans endanger a unique branch of Yellowstone cutts on the upper Blackfoot River. So most of the work and studies are with the upper Blackfoot and where it flows into the Blackfoot Reservoir, This video shows how the pelicans are a problem with the adult cutts going up river, and they even eat 70 % of the juveniles returning to the reservoir. Low water years nearly wipe the cutt population out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7k8Qhfzw8s
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