Show Survey Is Completed Utah's second annual winter eagle survey has been completed by the Division of Wildlife MILEAGES traveled on the four winter surveys increased nearly two and a half times over eagle numbers did not increase Division experts speculate a severe Wyoming winter in caused more eagles to move into Utah than normal and may account for the miles per eagle seen that year compared to miles per eagle seen in January only longer term trends can establish the validity of such population EAGLES were more numerous in Utah in late December and early January than any other due primarily to the high number of wintering bald groups of students consisted primarily of VICA club members and students who'd worked with construction ACCORDING TO Steve the project more cement than it takes to build a eight A crane pump was used to pump cement from the bottom of the small where the up into it's In the neighborhood of the project will be financed by students donating their returned book fee money to the Students who signed a petition which was placed in a metal which was then sunk into the base of the FEET eight feet wide and 12 feet the is now one of the first permanent letters on a hillside for a Utah High Bald eagles showed a drastic movement into Utah in November and December and a heavy movement out of the counting areas by February and From November to golden eagle numbers were comparatively BALD eagles were not attracted to eastern Utah in at least where road counts were Possibly weather or lack of prey species was responsible for higher miles traveled per bald eagle seen than the previous especially in southeastern Heavy snows in Colorado and Wyoming may have forced more eagles into southeastern region in miles per bald eagle than in 1972 73 miles per bald eagle ENVIRONMENTAL specialist Earl Sparks said that the for future that studies dealing winter severity and prey species availability would be helpful in eagle population data |