Missing: The Pelican Brief.(white pelicans missing from Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota)(Brief Article)

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 28-JUN-04

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Byline: Steve Friess

How do you lose 30,000 birds? Aviary experts at the Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge in central North Dakota don't know. But the continent's largest breeding ground for American white pelicans is virtually vacant. The birds returned this spring in their usual droves to the refuge...

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