| Show eagle U S national bird has 1 bounty in alaska in alaska the 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 killed at any time the same as a hawk or owl but none offers a bounty michigan and a number of other 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 iside aside an eagle sanctuary on mt johnson island in the eastern part of the state there you have four different opinions of the economic value of the eagle all from one country if the eagle is of sufficient value and interest to be preserved and an 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 tates states s 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 |
