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Archive Home > 2006 > November > 25 > Rare falcons may get taken off list

Rare falcons may get taken off list

Oregon officials to decide in Jan.

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
November 25, 2006

In the late 1970s, the pesticide DDT had so decimated the peregrine falcon population in Oregon that the official count turned up only one nesting pair of the birds, living in the cliffs around Crater Lake.

There might have been a few more scattered around the state, said Frank Isaacs, a senior....

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