** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, APRIL 26 ** FILE - This Jan. 28, 2004 file aerial photo shows the receding shoreline, lower left, of Walker Lake near Hawthorne, Nev., The lake has been dying a slow death for more than a century, choked by drought, agriculture and evaporation. Hawthorne's Loon Festival has been canceled in 2009, replaced instead by an education day April 25 to bring awareness to Walker Lake's teetering ecosystem and ongoing, multimillion dollar and multifaceted efforts to save it from a salty demise. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison, File)

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Where have all the loons gone at Walker Lake?

• By ncs-import
• April 26, 2009