Recent increases in the numbers of nesting wood storks is giving rise to the debate about when an endangered species is no longer in peril. While developers would like to see protection rules for the species eased, conservationists would like to see the population with its long term stability better insured. Still the resurgence is positive. (Photo: Suzanne Mast, Miami Herald File)The Miami Herald reports:
'''We haven't seen this kind of nesting efforts and eggs laid since the 1930s,'' said Dean Powell, director of watershed management for the South Florida Water Management District, which compiles an annual population assessment of wading birds.
One of the largest colonies -- more than 1,000 pairs -- still lives on the fringe of the Glades in the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary east of Naples, but more are now in smaller, scattered groups from North Florida to Georgia and South Carolina, two states where the birds were never found before the 1980s." See full article.
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