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Committee approves sending DeVoe Bank intertidal closure regulation to floor
Summary
The Senate Fish, Game and Forestry Committee voted to move a regulation closing DeVoe Bank’s intertidal area from March 15 to Oct. 15 to the Senate floor after DNR staff described nest declines and the site’s importance to migratory shorebirds.
The Senate Fish, Game and Forestry Committee voted to move to the Senate floor a Department of Natural Resources regulation that would close the intertidal area at DeVoe Bank from March 15 through Oct. 15 to protect nesting and migratory birds.
Committee members heard DNR testimony that DeVoe Bank is a highly dynamic, eroding inlet site that has shrunk sharply in recent decades. "It's very dynamic," Will Dillman, assistant chief of wildlife for DNR, told the committee, adding that more than 27 bird species use the site and that in an…
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