New Status for National Symbol: SOARING COMEBACK WILL ALLOW BALD EAGLE TO MOVE OFF ENDANGERED LIST
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 19--Over the next few weeks, thousands of bald eagles in California and across the West will make their annual flight northward to nesting and feeding grounds in Canada.
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Wind energy may be emerging as an important alternative power source for the Northwest, but there are concerns about the danger to hawks and eagles as turbines expand to wild areas of the Columbia River Gorge.
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. - After a review prompted by a timber industry lawsuit, the federal government announced Thursday that the northern spotted owl, the icon of logging wars in the Northwest, will remain on the threatened species list.
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The Interior Department had tried to limit a separate set of protections for the majestic bird that has served as a national symbol for centuries.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 16--Removing the bald eagle from the list of endangered species would be an important milestone for America, placing the official stamp of success on a decades-long effort to save this magnificent bird -- our nation's symbol -- from extinction.
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Most of the western Great Lakes population of gray wolves was removed from the Endangered Species Act on Monday.  (c) 2007 Bismarck Tribune. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - One of two eggs laid by a bald eagle at a central Illinois zoo is missing and authorities think the culprit could be a raccoon or a human.
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By ANNYSA JOHNSON  It is a stirring sight that has awed Wisconsinites for six years now: an ultralight aircraft aloft in the fading sunlight, leading endangered whooping cranes from the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge on their maiden migration south.
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By MATT WEISER McClatchy News Service  The push behind its likely removal as an endangered species has some worried.   SACRAMENTO, Calif.
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By JOHN HEILPRIN  WASHINGTON - The Fish and Wildlife Service wants to replace four decades of federal protections for the American bald eagle with new rules against disturbing it.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 3--DURHAM -- A great egret is back in the wild after a few weeks of R&R courtesy of the Piedmont Wildlife Center.   The bird, which tends to be coastal and not found this far inland, was seen dangling from a tree Jan.
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Blustery winds and frigid temperatures couldn't shake the maternal instincts of a bald eagle caught on a 24-hour camera while protecting her newly laid egg in a nest perched 70 feet above the Down East coast. For the second year in a row, images from the camera mounted on another pine tree 45 feet away are allowing online viewers worldwide to peek in on the eagle's soon-to-be growing family by logging onto http://www.briloon.org.
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Bald eagles, whose numbers dwindled in the 1960s, are once again flourishing, the interior secretary said Thursday.
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By MICHAEL OVERALL World Staff Writer  Record numbers expected in this year's count   Likely to get off the Endangered Species List this year, bald eagles are expected to nest in record numbers this spring across Oklahoma.
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By Michael Milstein, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Jun. 13--The Bush administration Tuesday moved to drop safeguards from  1.6 million acres of public forest seen as critical habitat for the northern  spotted owl, making it easier for federal agencies to proceed with logging  there.
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The bald eagle was removed from the list of threatened and endangered species today during a ceremony at the Jefferson Memorial, as officials and environmentalists celebrated the national symbol's historic recovery.
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Wolves are removed from the endangered species list in three US states, paving the way for hunting.