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Pub Date: 2007-03-13 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins The California condor has been described as a bird with one wing in the grave.Flying on wings nearly ten feet wide from tip to tip. these birds thrived on the carcasses of animals like woolly mammoths. Then. as humans began dramatically reshaping North America. the continents largest flying land bird started disappearing. By the beginning of the twentieth century. extinction seemed inevitable.But small groups of passionate individuals refused to allow the condor to fade away. even as they fought over how and why the bird was to be saved. Scientists. farmers. developers. bird lovers. and government bureaucrats argued bitterly and often. in the process injuring one another and the species they were trying to save. In the late 1980s. the federal government made a wrenching decision - the last remaining w...
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An environment correspondent for National Public Radio, John Nielsen specializes in stories about endangered species and changes to the natural landscape. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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