[CPEO-MEF] BIOTA: Turkey-culling at Air Station Cape Cod (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Turkey culling at Cape base criticized

By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times (MA)
May 29, 2009

SANDWICH - For the past two months, Fred and Wilma, a pair of wild 
turkeys, wandered into yards in Forestdale to gobble leftovers from bird 
feeders.

Kathie Powell saw the pair so often on her lawn at 43 Falmouth-Sandwich 
Road that she decided to name them after the Flintstones cartoon 
characters. On occasion, she would add some bread to their twice-a-day 
meals.

But last Thursday evening turned out to be Fred and Wilma's last supper, 
and Powell is crying foul.

At about 5:30 p.m., Powell and her husband, Dick, heard two men shoot 
the turkeys on the other side of a chain link fence that separates their 
Forestdale neighborhood from Air Station Cape Cod.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090529/NEWS/905290328/-1/NEWSLETTER100

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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