VOLUME 4, ISSUE 7
JULY 2013
PET JOURNAL WISCONSIN’S RESOURCE FOR ALL ANIMALS www.petjournalmidwest.com
EAGLES SOAR BACK! Reprint from Wisconsin Natural Resources Website, dnr.wi.gov
Editors Note: With celebrating our countries birth in July, we decided this month to bring our national bird, who dispite its problems with DDT and being hunted is making a great comeback! The infomaton in this article comes from the Wisconsin DNR's Features section which highlights the DNR's 40 years of protecting Wisconsin's Natural Heritage. For more information on Bald Eagles, please go to: dnr.wi.gov/ news/features/feature. asp?id=2&article=2. National symbol soars again Bald eagles have enjoyed a remarkable recovery in Wisconsin and nationwide since being placed on the state and federal endangered species lists in the 1970s. Eagles were removed from Wisconsin's endangered list in 1997 and from the federal list in 2007.
Roots of the recovery Bald eagles' recovery nationwide has its roots in Wisconsin. Unlimited shooting and habitat destruction in Wisconsin's early statehood led to declining bald eagle numbers, and organochlorine pesticides like DDT accelerated the problem. DDT, which was extensively used on farms and forests during the 1950s and 1960s, caused eagle egg shells to thin and break, resulting in few eaglets hatching. Wisconsin's groundbreaking 1969 hearings on DDT resulted in DNR ruling that the chemical was an environmental pollutant. That put the pressure on nationally and help force a national ban starting in 1972 on DDT. Wisconsin also helped spark the national recovery by supplying eaglets to other states.
see EAGLE, page 11
Photo Courtesy of L. Schneider
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