I recommend a well-written work by ornithologist Linda Wires--"The Double-Crested Cormorant: Plight of a Feathered Pariah"-- available from the Yale University Press. A generous segment of this work is free on line at https://books.google.com/books?id=9oI6AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT266&lpg=PT266&dq=ohio+cormorants&source=bl&ots=Wi2cUdNsfE&sig=ngGILC06a4s_fEAcGNkHwV1ktb8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3q7Pu98jOAhWFKGMKHcyRCP44FBDoAQgmMAI#v=onepage&q=ohio%20cormorants&f=false and the entire book is available from the publisher. Part of the work (see the section "The Importance of History") foreshadows in some detail the efforts of Ohio's Division of Wildlife and the federal Wildlife Services to kill cormorants in western Lake Erie. The history of birds at West Sister Island--now a National Wildlife Refuge--and nearby unique islands in the area, from the days of mostly unregulated human greed--is made clear. See the section titled "The Importance of History" for stories of unregulated fishing, hunting, and egging, collection of feathers for the millinery trade, forest removal, introduction of livestock, chemical contamination, hotels, a casino, artillery practice and bombing tests, and all sorts of depredations which shame us today. The slaughter of cormorants continues, however. Bill Whan Cols ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]