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Robb
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 06/29/2007 : 06:35:08 [Permalink]
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There was, but I don't recall exactly what.
This is indeed a success story, but it might also make their nesting areas, once protected, vulnerable to development.
The rat turd in the sugar....
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 07:07:34 [Permalink]
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According to Wikipedia,The bird was first protected in the U.S. and Canada by the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty, later extended to all of North America. The 1940 Bald Eagle Protection Act in the U.S., which protected the bald eagle and the golden eagle, prohibited commercial trapping and killing of the birds.[12] The bald eagle was declared an endangered species by the U.S. in 1967, and amendments to the 1940 act between 1962 and 1972 further restricted commercial uses and increased penalties for violators. The Act was eventually applied to trade in eagle feathers by Native American headdress makers. Whether the species is reclassified from endangered to threatened will have no effect on these separate legal protections. (So even though it's not endangered or threatened anymore, you still can't have your eagle omelette.)
Oddly enough, the article you linked to, Robb, no longer itself contains any reference to 1967. But the key would have been in whether it said that the bird was listed as endangered, or protected. The IUCN Red List began in 1963, and may have been involved with classifying the eagle as endangered even if there was no ESA to help protect it here in the U.S. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 14:41:43 [Permalink]
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My question is: Fil, assuming Bald Eagles become as numerous a pest as the Spotted Owls in Futurama, how would you prepare them, Southern Style?
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JEROME DA GNOME
BANNED
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 19:09:15 [Permalink]
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I feel bad for all the people that have dies from the banning of DDT.
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 06/30/2007 : 01:21:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
My question is: Fil, assuming Bald Eagles become as numerous a pest as the Spotted Owls in Futurama, how would you prepare them, Southern Style?
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They're fish eagles and as such, would taste awful. I wouldn't prepare them at all. Spotted owls, on the other hand....
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Bald Eagle no Longer Endangered
