Show alaska pays 1 bounty for eagle ea gle U S national bird in government pays a bounty of 1 on all eagles that are destroyed because they are said to prey on salmon in large numbers most of the states in the union offer the eagle no protection and it may be at any time the same as a hawk or owl but none offers a bounty michigan and a anber of other othar states have protected the eagle as a non game bird and it cannot be shot at anytime pennsylvania thinks so much of our national bird that it has just set aside an eagle sanctuary on mt johnson island in the eastern part of the state where the bird is protected there you have four different opinions of the economic va value I 1 ue of the eagle all from one c country dun if the eagle is of suir sufficient icino value ie and interest to be preserved and encouraged cou raged to propagate in a minority of our states is considered a pest in alaska and a bird of little or no account in most of the remaining states then just what is its real status this is one of the many incidents of little accord throughout the nation on the economic status of many birds |