“Save The Bald Eagle!”
1935 CE • New York City, NY
“Lobbying to end the eagle bounty in Alaska, the committee concluded: ‘The Bald Eagle is not so far on the road to extermination in the United States proper that its case there is probably already hopeless.” - Emergency Conservation Committee
Bruce E. Beans, Eagles Plume: The Struggle to Preserve the Life & Haunts of America's Bald Eagles (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1996), 81.
Image: Bain News Service, Bald Eagle, Photograph, via Library of Congress
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