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To: LindyBill who wrote (336136)	11/28/2009 10:56:14 AM
From: kech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793968

Very interesting about the raptors and hunting. I remember from my youth hearing about thin egg shells and raptors dying from that. Was that phony too?

To: LindyBill who wrote (336136)	11/28/2009 12:38:09 PM
From: DMaA	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793968

Legal hunting ended in the 40's. Amazing to consider that governments actually paid people to shoot them before that: Protection for the bald eagle came slowly. Not until 1940, when the Bald Eagle Act was signed, was the killing of bald eagles in the lower 48 states prohibited. In Alaska, a bounty was in effect from 1917 to 1945 and again from 1949 to 1953. More than 100,000 eagles were killed, each pair of feet bringing from 50 cents to $2. Finally, in 1953, the Territorial Bald Eagle Bounty Law was repealed in Alaska, making the indiscriminate killing of bald eagles illegal. ngpc.state.ne.us