"Another Mike Olson, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Missouri River coordinator, said the corps has legal protections for its decision as a result of an agreement with the fish and wildlife agency that allows the killing of about 340 birds, a level of "incidental take" the corps has not reached."

Does anybody else wonder why the USFWS and NPS spent hundereds of thousands of our dollars to close Cape Point a while ago for the protection of a few plovers when they had "birds to burn" from excess quota.

Or maybe our Plovers are just plain "Special"?