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Ruffled Feathers

“Ruffled Feathers,” Texas Monthly, September 2016

Photograph by Justin Carrasquillo.

 

Ruffled Feathers,” Texas Monthly, September 2016.

When a teenage boy brazenly shot two endangered whooping cranes outside Beaumont, his act unleashed widespread anger and resulted in a quick arrest—and revealed just how difficult it can be to save a species.

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