Greetings, This proposal is…

Greetings,

This proposal is absolutely cruel and inhumane. These birds create no harm to the environment or fish. In fact these birds are sign of water quality. Many scientific papers have been published about this. Instead of creating awareness and celebrating the return of this magnificent birds back from extinction...you are proposing to murder them in thousands for what? Each bird is part of a family unity and they come every year in March to bread, socialize, raise the kids.

What damage are these birds causing? In Hamilton habour, which is one of the most polluted places in Lake Ontario. They bread and colonized on a man made island. Using few trees that no one cares or uses. In front of one of the biggest polluters "Steel Factory". Do you believe these innocent birds are damaging the Lake?

"Black-crowned night herons nest in the undergrowth, often under cormorant nests. Culling cormorants should save their habitat from an acidic demise and boost the heron population. Instead, those populations declined when the cormorants were killed."

They eat the round Gobies, a fish the DNR claims is invasive.
http://greatlakesecho.org/2010/07/15/cormorants-gobble-round-gobies-few…

What balance are you trining to achieve here? Nature is already balanced.

It's an amazing sight to watch these birds in thousands fish our great lakes and travel together.

Please I urge you to stop this proposal. We have hunted many species to it's extinction and it's taken decades of hard work to bring some species from the dead. Please don't repeat the mistakes of the past so our future generation pays for it.

Thanks,
Linda K.