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Wildlife groups began bitterly calling upon Montana Governor Ted Schwinden to create a state pesticide advisory council to keep the department of agriculture from any further impetuous or ill-advised spraying. Endangered species like the bald eagle, peregrine falcon and whooping crane, they noted, are especially vulnerable to pesticides. Grumbled Biologist Lowell McEwen of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: "They are poisoning everything under the sun down there...
...male lets out a cry that sounds like a rake being scraped over cement. He flaps his wings-which span 9 ft.-at a bird only another condor could love: an ungainly, 20-lb. female, with lugubrious black feathers, yellow eyes and a bald, orange head. She coyly nibbles at his neck, and off they fly, monogamous partners for life. They will produce a single 4½-in. egg every two years, and their ugly infant will be dependent upon them for a year-or until he is old enough to find carrion for himself...
There must be an attraction of opposites: Ernie Souchak (John Belushi), a pudgy, wily, chain-smoking columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and Nell Porter (Blair Brown), a Boston Brahmin working alone in her Rocky Mountain aerie to save the American bald eagle. They must "meet cute": assigned to write a story on the Bird Woman of Wyoming, Souchak climbs the mountain at risk of life and lung, falls asleep in Nell's cabin and is poked awake by her. They must reverse roles: he cooks goulash while she overpowers a pair of hunters. They must adapt their skills...
...Dalmatians, Alex Alligator in Fantasia. That film, of course, was the great test of the studio's range and included such marvelous, unprecedented imagery as Wolfgang Reitherman's massed battling dinosaurs and the dark demonism of Vladimir Tytla's work on the Night on Bald Mountain sequence...
...shot them from airplanes, and laid out wholesale poisons. But in 1972 the Nixon Administration banned the use of poison on federal grazing lands because it kills more than just coyotes. The scattered chemicals-usually a nerve drug called Compound 1080-also felled birds, including endangered species like the bald eagle, not to mention foxes, badgers, opossums, raccoons and pet dogs...