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Columbia were wounded by hunters in Nebraska last year. Some, at 

 least, still migrate, and as trumpeter populations increase, more can 

 be expected to adopt the old species habits. This will increase the 

 hunter toll. It is one facet of trumpeter management that we must 

 expect and plan for. 



The American people have every right to be proud of the restoration 

 job they are doing on the trumpeter. Purchase and development of 

 Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, transplanting operations, 

 and enforcement of protective laws have increased trumpeter numbers 

 almost tenfold in 23 years. These are simple teclmiques, but the 

 swans have responded, mainly because of their limited annual range. 



The future of the trumpeter is as secure as any small population can 

 be. Much has been done in the past, and as management and fact- 

 finding continues, swans will slowly increase and spread. The sound 

 of a trumpeter's voice can carry 2 miles. It is a sound that could have 

 vanished from our country. For the trumpeter it is still a swan song, 

 not the legendary death song, but the bold trumpet of a species that 

 will be with us into the foreseeable future, the magnificent trumpets 

 in the West. 



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