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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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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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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.