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On January 31, Mylon L. Stockton, 36, of Noblesville, Indiana, was ordered to pay a total of $90,000 for violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Stockton’s co-defendant, Mark A. Borinsky, 39, of North Port, Florida, has been fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to a similar offense. Both defendants were placed on probation for one year after being sentenced by U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore in Tampa, Florida. |
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Source: Oral History as told by Ken Saunders
All Native North American Peoples attach special significance to the eagle, and its feathers. |
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Reward offered in bald eagle death..KEYWORDS: eagle poaching eagle reward eagles endangered species threatened species in the US pacific northwest eagles inland northwest eagles
AUTHOR: Nicholas K. Geranios
SPOKANE, Wash. -- A bald eagle was shot to death and left hanging from a tree
branch this week, and a federal agency is offering a reward for information
about who shot a bird that is the nation's symbol.
The adult eagle, classified as threatened by the government, was found
hanging from a branch in a field about a mile from Sprague, near Highway 231, the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.
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KEYWORDS: american bald eagle habitat endangered species threatened species bald eagle legislation national icon US official bird DDT
The American bald eagle - the national symbol whose decline
helped spur the Endangered Species Act and a ban on the pesticide DDT - will
be off the threatened species list this year, a top Bush administration
official promised Saturday. |
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KEYWORDS: bald eagle Bald Eagle BALD EAGLE US national bird bald eagle history eagle habitat endangered species threatened species eagles Eagles EAGLES Endangered Species Act of 1973 Bald Eagle Protection Act of 1940 eagle jewelry
Our majestic national bird is flying high over much of its former range and the bald eagle may soon be off the endangered species list. |
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