Word: murrelet
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...with a light rain falling, when he set up his tent. Two hours later, before first light, Thron was standing outside the tent, rain running down the back of his neck. After perhaps five minutes, he heard a short, musical, descending call -- the "keer" of a marbled murrelet. Huge, dark shapes began to coalesce in the lightening gray: the enormous trunks of redwoods and Douglas firs. By full light, Thron had tallied 23 calls from murrelets. In this April nesting season, these smallish, fast-flying seabirds trade chores in a quick exchange at dawn. The parent freed of egg-sitting...
...after five days by a state appeals court. John Campbell, Pacific's combative president, shrugs off legal entanglements that have tied up virtually all the firm's old-growth stands since then. Campbell dismisses concern over spotted-owl habitat as "a hoax" and thinks research will show that the murrelet's old-growth needs are exaggerated. But he is proud of an industry award for a model project, done with the state, for rehabilitating erosion damage caused by the firm's logging at Shaw Creek...