05.29.2015 Letters Featured Letter: In defense of the mute swans To the editor: The New York State Department of Conservation can start killing and mutilating (amputating) wings of healthy wild mute swans if the mute swan bill passed by...
03.11.2015 Environment Under DEC’s revised plans, mute swans could be killed as ‘last resort’ A newly revised state Department of Environmental Conservation plan to deal with mute swan populations in the state would focus on non-lethal management of their numbers on Long Island, only...
06.19.2014 Government NYS lawmakers agree: Let’s not kill the swans It looks like the swans won’t be killed. Or at least if they are killed, it will now come as a last resort. Legislation has passed both houses of the...
04.01.2014 Opinion Grossman: The DEC at its worst with mute swans Hands down, what is the dumbest thing the Department of Environmental Conservation has ever come up with? How about the DEC’s plan to slaughter 2,200 beautiful, elegant, graceful birds,...
02.28.2014 Environment DEC backtracks on plan to kill, capture all mute swans After getting pushback from lawmakers and thousands of residents, state environmental officials are considering major changes to a management plan that called for the eradication of New York’s wild...
01.19.2014 News DEC wants mute swans killed or captured by 2025 Citing “aggressive behavior towards people” and “destruction of submerged aquatic vegetation,” the state Department of Environment Conservation has released a new plan to kill or capture all wild mute...