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Conservationists kill wild pigs to save fox

By Gillian Flaccus
Associated Press

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

SANTA CRUZ ISLAND, Calif. — Norm Macdonald rises each morning with the sun, grabs his .223-caliber rifle and slips into the passenger seat of a tiny, doorless helicopter for another day of shooting pigs. As the chopper skims over rugged terrain, Macdonald scans dozens of simple fence traps he's set up for the thousands of wild swine that have overrun this Southern California island. When there are pigs in the traps — and there always are — Macdonald leans out and pumps t ...

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