This Week in Review (June 15-21, 2003):

Current News Items: Additions this week: 2. Cumulative to date: 161. Another slow news week for Mute Swans. Other Online Documents: Additions this week: 0. Cumulative to date: 47 items from 26 sources.

Current News Articles (2):

Owner of Illegal Deer to Be Tried (Seattle Post-Intelligencer - 06/21/03): This article by Jennifer Langston notes that the Mute Swan was one of several species added, in 1992, to an official State of Washington “list of species that threaten native animals by invading habitat, spreading disease, or interbreeding.” Readers are then directed to the list of Deleterious Exotic Wildlife in Washington State.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/127717_baddeer21.html

Current News Articles (1):

New State Law Regulates Exotic Pets (Bozeman [Montana] Daily Chronicle - 06/14/03): As related in this article by Walt Williams, the event that sparked Montana Audubon to draft a bill--signed by Governor Judy Martz on April 29, 2003, and become effective next year--clamping down on the exotic pet trade originated in Livingston, "where a family brought in non-native Mute Swans in the 1970s." According to Audubon members Janet Ellis, "It was feared the aggressive Mute Swans would outcompete Trumpeter Swans in Yellowstone National Park."
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2003/06/15/news/exoticanimalsbzbigs.txt