Comment on FR Doc # 2011-28755

The answer to the d. c. cormorant problem can not be easily solved. Irrational thinking has no place there. Sound biological concepts need to rule for the intelligent answer. The "problem" was most likely created by man, as many natural "problems" are. In Ohio the cormorats have mostly displaced the nesting black-crowned night-heron colony at West Sister Island. I understand there has been some habitat management done to reduce nesting cormorant populations. Ultimately, I believe what will happen, is what almost always happens concerning wildlife "management". Money will rule, politics win again. It would be nice if sound management could be done to benefit both the cormorants and the fishing industry, etc. In reality, this is unlikely to occur. I am not knowledgeable about other states' departments of natural resources, but Ohio's couldn't manage an out-house. Being a migratory, non-game (at least for the moment) species, the fed.s will have the final decision on this matter. Not always, but in Ohio, the fed.s do a lot better job of wildlife management than the state political caterers of wild management do. Some wildlife management agencies have a clue, some not. John Herman