[Hot Tabasco]

Alaska paid over $100,000 in bounties for 115,000 bald eagles between 1917 and 1942.

That was one of many facts ignored by the EPA when they banned DDT.....

[Blueflag]

Yup. Taken off the endangered species list in 2006, right?

[Blueflag]

Yup. Taken off the endangered species list in 2006, right?

[43north]

“Alaska paid over $100,000 in bounties for 115,000 bald eagles between 1917 and 1942.”

This probably continued after 1942. I met an old WW2 vet a few years ago who commercial fished out of Sitka after the war. He told me that when the fishing was slow he’d shoot a sea lion and drag it ashore to attract eagles. He’d shoot the eagles and cut off their legs which were required to collect the bounty. I asked him what he thought people would say about those practices now. He just laughed.