It has been terrible to see Louisiana's state bird the brown pelican covered in oil. And dreadfull think of those residents of Louisiana and what it must be like to see their native state bird drowning in oil.

In the unfolding tragedy in the Gulf, a Minnesotan like me no doubt wonders how this calamity might effect me directly, thousands of miles away.

Well apparantly it can, and it will. The state bird of Minnesota is the Loon. And over half the Loons in Minnesota, migrates South and spends their winter in the Gulf of Mexico.

Thousands of miles up the Mississippi from Louisiana, it's not only your birds that are dying, it will be ours right here from Minnesota. And as the course of this disaster unfolds, other states may realize the devastation that has been wrought-

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