Comms for patriots
By Derrick Bryson Taylor
March 25, 2021
The bald eagle population in the lower 48 states has quadrupled since 2009, researchers said this week, underscoring decades of efforts to protect a species that was once on the brink of extinction.
There were an estimated 316,700 bald eagles in the lower 48 states during the 2019 breeding season, including more than 71,400 breeding pairs, according to a report issued on Wednesday by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
In 2009, the bald eagle population in the lower 48 states was estimated to be just above 72,000, including roughly 30,000 breeding pairs.
Deb Haaland, the secretary of the Interior, said at a news conference on Wednesday that the results were “truly a historic conservation success story.”