Cattails Targeted for Sunflower Farmers

February 28, 2008 By JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Federal wildlife officials will target entire parcels of cattail-choked wetlands in North Dakota this year to kill the preferred habitat of sunflower-scarfing blackbirds.



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