[TN-Bird] Proposal to Remove Bald Eagle from Threatened Species List

Early last week Howard Groce posted a link to a CNN.com article
(http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/02/14/bald.eagle.ap/index.html) on the
US Fish and Wildlife Service's proposal to remove the bald eagle from the
list of endangered and threatened species.  The USFWS published the official
proposal last Thursday, and is asking for public comments on the proposal.
Comments are due on May 17, 2006.
 

Information on the proposed delisting is available at
http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/baldeagle.htm.  This proposed delisting
actually consists of 3 different items.  The USFWS web site has links to the
3 documents explaining each of the 3 items.

1) - the proposed rulemaking that would remove the bald eagle from the list
of endangered and threatened species.  Because of its increased population,
the eagle's status was downgraded from endangered to threatened in 1995.  In
1999, the USFWS formally proposed to delist the eagle; for various reasons,
this proposal stalled.  So the new proposed rulemaking is actually reopening
the 1999 proposal.

 

2) - a proposed rulemaking to explicitly define "disturb" in the Bald and
Golden Eagle Protection Act.  If the bald eagle is delisted, this act would
be the main federal law protecting it.  The proposed definition would afford
a lot of protection to nesting eagles.

 

3) - new Draft National Bald Eagle Management Guidelines.  These would
replace many of the standards in the various regional recovery plans and
related documents.  As "guidelines," they would not be legally enforceable.
I haven't read them yet.

 

Individual TOS members and the TOS Conservation Policy Committee should
consider sending the USFWS comments on this proposal.

 

Chuck Nicholson

Norris, TN

 



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