The pentobarbital poisoning led the Blue Ridge Wildlife Center to believe that the eagles found access to a pet that had been euthanized but not properly buried. They shared a reminder to pet owners ...

DDT was banned by the federal government in 1972. Recovery efforts began in the early 1980s with the reintroduction of eagles from Canada, artificial incubation and fostering efforts. In 2012 ...

The bald eagle has been a major player in American conservation history ... When the story of its poisoning by DDT was popularized in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, a nascent environmental movement ...

Habitat protection afforded by the Endangered Species Act, the federal government’s banning of DDT, and conservation actions taken by the American public have helped bald eagles make a ...

Jim Phillips said that when the surveys were conducted back in the 1970s and 1980s, participants were lucky if they counted one bald eagle. The situation started changing when the pesticide DDT ...