GAME COMMISSION RENEWS EFFORT TO PROTECT TWO STATE ENDANGERED SPECIES

NESTING COLONY OF GREAT EGRETS AND BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS ON WADE ISLAND 
Cull of cormorants necessary to protect unique nesting area of two endangered species

HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Game Commission officials today announced that they, along with officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services, have renewed a program to sustain and protect a historic nesting colony of great egrets and black-crowned night-herons – two state endangered species – on Wade Island, a three-acre isle near Harrisburg in the Susquehanna River. This effort includes the limited culling of double-crested cormorants increasingly dominating the canopy space on this relatively unique nesting site. Culling was first used in 2006, and again in 2011 and 2012.