[TN-Bird] Re: TN-Bird] Re: exceedingly rare oddity-- TWRA's enormous opportunity
- From: Chris Sloan <csloan1973@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: TN-Bird Listserv <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:42:28 -0500
Wallace-
We seem to be going in circles here, so let me be clearer. I have no
agenda or bias here, other than being in favor of smart use of limited
funds for non-game conservation. I'm asserting these facts:
1. There is no definitive evidence that Golden Eagles have ever naturally
nested in Tennessee in the modern era.
2. What anecdotal evidence there is suggests that, at best, nesting Golden
Eagles were extralimital and rare.
3. The nearest natural breeding populations are 700-1000 miles away.
If you disagree with any of those, please cite your sources. If not, then
I don't know what you expect these experts to tell us; those facts are all
I need to know to draw the conclusion that TWRA should not expend resources
on nesting Golden Eagles in Tennessee.
Chris Sloan
Nashville, TN
http://www.chrissloanphotography.com
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> **
> Now that it is abundantly clear that relying on memory and humble
> opinion has its limitations,
> it is probably best to get back to the main assertions:
>
> -- TWRA needs to quickly move forward with enlightened and
> progressive options. We should stand for the very best progressive,
> professional and scientific consultation in eastern North America in
> regards to what the best options are for the captive fledgling Golden
> Eagle. That and nothing less.
>
> -- TWRA should not make bad decision or no decisions at all simply
> because there will probably always be desperately-need non-game
> funding. If the scientific community's thoughtful consensus is to do
> nothing, then that would be better founded than management with little more
> than memories and humble opinions.
>
> What do we have to fear in hearing from experience and expertise ?
>
> Would it be more helpful for us to have reliable facts when a discussion
> espouses the ASSUMPTION of past “tragic waste of TWRA’s Nongame funds?” What
> if it turns out that is not the case and TWRA did not waste Nongame funds
> ? What if it turns out TWRA does not waste valuable time ?
>
> Are there flags of caution here which should remind us that bias,
> misinformation and agendas
> threaten reasonable ideas of exploration and options to
> pursue progressive, professional and scientific consultation ?
>
> Wallace Coffey
> Bristol, TN
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Chris Sloan <csloan1973@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* Bob Hatcher <hatcher2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Cc:* TN-Bird Listserv <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ; Cecere,
> Al<SaveTheEagle@xxxxxxx>; Danielle
> Steckley <aefeagles2@xxxxxxxxxxx> ; Beth Parker <parkerbj@xxxxxxxxx> ; Nancy
> Zagaya <nzagaya@xxxxxxx> ; Sterling Daniels <sterling.daniels@xxxxxx> ; Polly
> Rooker <prooker@xxxxxxxxxx> ; Chris Simpson <Chris.Simpson@xxxxxx> ; Scott
> Somershoe <scott.somershoe@xxxxxx>
> *Sent:* July 16, 2012 02:59
> *Subject:* [TN-Bird] Re: exceedingly rare oddity-- TWRA's enormous
> opportunity
>
> My apologies for mistakenly asserting that TWRA spent funds on the Golden
> Eagle hacking project. I actually knew that and wasn't careful in my
> response. That said, as Bob notes below, there is no definitive evidence
> that Golden Eagles ever historically nested in the state, and so in my
> opinion there never should have been a hacking program to start with.
>
> To Wallace's comment about Golden Eagles nesting for the last 20 years, I
> believe those nests were all in the region where hacking occurred and seem
> likely to be the results of it. Even if not, based on the limited
> anecdotal historical evidence, this is a marginally viable, extralimital
> breeding population at best. I stand by my assertion that TWRA should not
> expend any resources on the issue of nesting Golden Eagles in Tennessee.
> If TWRA had unlimited resources, then I'd be all for exploring the issue
> further, but unfortunately, their resources are very limited, and in my
> opinion any effort focused on breeding Golden Eagles is a distraction from
> much more important issues. Wallace misquotes me when he says I'm asking
> TWRA to "make bad decisions or no decisions at all." Making a decision not
> to act is still making a decision, and in this case, in my opinion, the
> better one.
>
> If Wallace feels otherwise, I'd ask him to please explain the logic for
> making efforts that are, in effect, introducing a species into the state
> that does not appear, based on available evidence, to have ever been
> established as a breeder, at least in any significant numbers. I can list
> numerous examples of other species for which Tennessee is at the extreme
> end of their breeding range, but for which I doubt anyone would advocate a
> special breeding program if they suddenly declined within the state (e.g.
> Painted Bunting, Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Alder Flycatcher, to name a
> few). If we give the evidence of natural Golden Eagle breeding (i.e. not
> associated with hacking) its most favorable interpretation, then they are
> no different from those species.
>
> Resources are finite, so choices have to be made. This seems like an
> obvious one to me.
>
> Chris Sloan
> Nashville, TN
> http://www.chrissloanphotography.com
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Bob Hatcher <hatcher2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> We need to set the record straight concerning the following ASSUMPTION
>> of past “tragic waste of TWRA’s Nongame funds” involved with hacking of
>> Golden Eagles in Tennessee. This is not the case; GOEA hacking, per se,
>> has never been funded by TWRA. As Paul Harvey used to say, “Here is the
>> rest of the story” – once again.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Due to lack of documentation of prior GOEA nesting in Tennessee (see
>> below), GOEA hacking in Tennessee was given the lowest of all priorities in
>> TWRA’s Endangered Species Strategic Plan in 1990. The only way it would be
>> allowed to be done would be if: 1) funding would need to come from
>> non-TWRA sources; 2) no new hack tower would be constructed, and 3) TWRA
>> would not provide the hack site attendants. We thought that would be the
>> end of that, but then, a non-TWRA Golden Eagle reintroduction proponent
>> raised the money from a private donor to completely fund the project. A
>> prior bald eagle hack site volunteer, living next to our former Bald Eagle
>> hack tower on Chickamauga lake, volunteered to be a Golden Eagle hack site
>> attendant there. A total of 37 Golden Eagles were hacked and released
>> there from 1995 through 2000. Increased numbers of GOEA’s showed up during
>> the next few winter months on the adjacent Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge for
>> viewing during the Sandhill Crane Festivals, etc. ****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> The same non-TWRA funding principle was carried out by the American Eagle
>> Foundation (AEF) with the hacking of 10 Golden Eagles on Douglas Lake from
>> 2001 through 2006. AEF utilized facilities that Dollywood had constructed
>> for Bald Eagle restoration. AEF utilized the available hack tower for
>> release of the young GOEA’s that its non-releasable captive adult had
>> produced. Since 2007, these adult GOEA’s have not been allowed to produce
>> young.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Scott Somershoe had asked an appropriate question in January, 2007, “Why
>> have GOEA’s been hacked in Tennessee?” The following is my reply, with
>> other pertinent GOEA background information.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> I hope these records will be useful, particularly as we continue to study
>> and learn more about GOEA’s in Tennessee.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Bob Hatcher****
>>
>> Retired TWRA NG-ES Coordinator (1978-2001), and****
>>
>> AEF Eagle Consultant and Correspondent****
>>
>> Brentwood, TN ****
>>
>> EagleMail@xxxxxxxxxx or hatcher2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> January 08, 2007 5:52 PM****
>>
>> Subject: Golden Eagles in Tennessee****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Scott Somershoe, State Ornithologist****
>>
>> Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency****
>>
>> Nashville, TN****
>>
>> Scott.Somershoe@xxxxxxxxxxx****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Scott,****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> You ask a good question: "I have to ask, why are golden eagles being
>> 'reintroduced' to TN when they did not occur here originally and thus we
>> are introducing a species." As Bruce Anderson reports, historical nesting
>> in Tennessee was a point of discussion before the hacking of Golden Eagles
>> was begun. The following points have been some of the pros and cons of
>> those discussions. ****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> TOS co-founder Albert Ganier reported in TOS' The Migrant that he had
>> observed at least two Golden Eagle nests in Van Buren County during the
>> 1930's. However, he personally did not see the nests until after the active
>> nesting seasons were complete, and observed no adults or young at the
>> nests. Ganier had climbed into several eagle nests before that, and felt he
>> could distinguish an eagle nest from other nests (it was not near a large
>> body of water). I did a quick search today without finding those original
>> Ganier references. However, I find a reference to one of the one of those
>> nests near Fall Creek Falls in Ganier's article about Peregrine Falcon
>> nests in the September, 1940 Migrant, page 54: ****
>>
>> *"The last mentioned point is of great interest in that it is a massive
>> sandstone cliff, more than 200 feet sheer and jutting out of the southeast
>> escarpment of the Caney Creek Canyon. Here was the Golden Eagle's eyrie
>> some years back, and here is the present eyrie of a pair of peregrine
>> falcons...."*
>>
>> ****
>>
>> There are records of significant numbers of Golden Eagles that
>> historically frequented the hills of Cannon and nearby Rutherford County.
>> During the mid-1980's, TWRA's Rutherford County Wildlife Officer, Teddy
>> Hollis, orally advised that there were enough Golden Eagles to be seen in
>> Rutherford County, where he lived as a child in the early 1950's, that
>> birders from Nashville would travel there to see them. He reported that one
>> of his neighbors trapped a "nesting Golden Eagle" and placed it in a cage
>> at a country grocery store, where large numbers of people came to see it.
>> He stated that the Rutherford County Wildlife Officer at the time, Walter
>> Taylor, made them release the eagle. I asked Teddy Hollis if he would send
>> me a letter describing these childhood observations, but he never got
>> around to it. I have never seen a written account of that nesting report.
>> Walter Taylor was still a TWRA officer in Rutherford County in the late
>> 1960's, but he had died by the time of this report from Teddy Hollis.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> The larger numbers of Golden Eagles were apparently in Cannon and
>> Rutherford Counties primarily during the winter months, if not altogether.
>> They still frequented a Cannon County site (near Shiloh Church) enough
>> during the 1970's that it was checked each year for several years during
>> the mid-winter eagle count, after we began them in 1979 as part of the
>> national annual mid-winter counts. After a few years of no sightings there
>> in the 1980's, it was not checked further during mid-winter counts. ****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> In the 1980's, Mr. Frank Barker, then President of a bank in Dunlap, TN,
>> took me to a Sequatchie County site where he enthusiastically described
>> seeing a large "eagle on a bluff nest" during his teenage days of about the
>> 1920's. The site was near Highway 127, just east of the Sequatchie Valley,
>> and overlooking the rugged headwaters of North Chickamauga Creek, which
>> flows to the east (to the Tennessee River) away from Sequatchie Valley. I
>> of course can't be sure it had been an actual eagle nest, but, if so, it
>> was much more Golden Eagle habitat that Bald Eagle habitat. Golden Eagles
>> continued in more recent years to be seen occasionally in the Sequatchie
>> Valley during the winter months. We had a volunteer who searched for them
>> during mid-winter eagle counts of the 1980's, but after not finding any for
>> several years, we finally stopped winter eagle surveys there. ****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> The most comprehensive known study of Golden Eagle nesting in the
>> Southern Appalachian states was reported during
>> 1990<http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Wilson/v102n04/p0693-p0698.pdf>in the
>> *Wilson Bulletin*. They found several written reports of Golden Eagles
>> nesting in the Southern Appalachians, but none was judged adequate to
>> actually document that Golden Eagles had nested in those states by 1990,
>> except for very limited nesting resulting from hacking in Georgia in the
>> 1980’s. The link to that Wilson Bulletin report is
>> http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Wilson/v102n04/p0693-p0698.pdf. ****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> We considered the *Wilson Bulletin* report when preparing TWRA's
>> Endangered Species strategic plans of the 1990's. We therefore placed
>> hacking of Golden Eagles as the last of all priority actions within those
>> 5-6 year ES plans, giving higher priority to species known to have
>> historically reproduced in Tennessee. This priority was carried forward
>> in the 2000 - 2006 Strategic Plan, which included the statement, "No
>> hacking is proposed in Tennessee unless it can be conducted at minimum cost
>> (e.g. with donated eaglets and with primarily volunteer hack attendant(s)
>> at an existing hack facility)." I thought that, when we installed such
>> tight restrictions in the ES Strategic Plan, there would be very little
>> likelihood of hacking Golden Eagles in Tennessee. But....****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> In 1995, the Montgomery Zoo had a captive-bred Golden Eaglet that needed
>> hacking for release into the wild. The USFWS asked if TWRA could accept it
>> for hacking and release. We accepted it under the above Strategic Plan
>> guidelines. We had considerable interest in Golden Eagle hacking at key
>> levels outside and within TWRA. A strong non-TWRA GOEA proponent contacted
>> an outside donor, who agreed to pay for all significant expenses. A
>> volunteer, who had previously been our Bald Eagle hack site attendant,
>> became TWRA's Golden Eagle hack site attendant in the old Bald Eagle hack
>> tower on Chickamauga Lake (at junction of Tennessee and Hiwassee Rivers).
>> AEF had a pair of Golden Eagles, which was allowed to produce young, and it
>> later expanded there also. All criteria of our stringent (we thought)
>> Strategic Plan had been met, so we accepted golden eagles for hacking under
>> those terms. ****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> All 47 Golden Eagles that have been hacked in Tennessee since 1995 have
>> followed the above low-priority guidelines cited for TWRA's Strategic
>> Plans. ****
>>
>> Based on the above reports, I cannot positively state whether Golden
>> Eagles historically nested in Tennessee. However, like the *Wilson
>> Bulletin* author, I have yet to find good documentation of it. Based on
>> this lack of evidence, and the lack of current known nesting anywhere in
>> the Eastern United States after releases in NC and GA, and our 47 releases
>> in Tennessee since 1995, it is my conclusion that we have adequately tested
>> their current nesting adaptability in the Southeast. ****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Thanks again, and I hope this background information will be helpful.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Bob Hatcher****
>>
>> Eagle Consultant to American Eagle Foundation, and****
>>
>> Retired TWRA NG-ES Coordinator (1978 - 2001)****
>>
>> *************************
>>
>> ****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> *From:* tn-bird-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tn-bird-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> *On Behalf Of *Chris Sloan
>> *Sent:* Monday, July 16, 2012 10:52 AM
>> *To:* TN-Bird Listserv
>>
>> *Subject:* [TN-Bird] Re: exceedingly rare oddity-- TWRA's enormous
>> opportunity****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> I'll add one comment to this. While this is certainly interesting news,
>> I would hate to see TWRA (again) waste valuable time and money on the issue
>> of breeding Golden Eagles. The nearest breeding population is 700+ miles
>> away, and there is scant evidence (nothing more than vague anecdotes) that
>> this species was ever a native breeding species in Tennessee in the modern
>> era, notwithstanding TWRA's prior (and very misguided in my opinion)
>> efforts to "reintroduce" (actually "introduce") the species to the state.
>> In my opinion, given the facts we have available, this fledgling is highly
>> likely to be a byproduct of those efforts. Certainly the bird should be
>> cared for and hopefully released, but beyond that, expediture of any of our
>> desperately limited non-game dollars on this bird is, in my opinion, a
>> tragic waste, when we have so many much more important issues that are
>> already starved for funding.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> The wintering Golden Eagles are a bit of a different story, and in my
>> opinion that side of the equation definitely merits further study and
>> conservation effort.
>>
>> Chris Sloan
>> Nashville, TN
>> http://www.chrissloanphotography.com****
>>
>> ********************
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:****
>>
>> Here we stand at the doorstep to ornithological history !****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Putting an exceedingly rare oddity of getting our hands on a fledgling
>> Golden Eagle in perspective, in Tennessee, is astounding.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> It seems like when Scott Somershoe, Polly Rooker and an unnamed wildlife
>> officer from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency shared what they have
>> been very busy with, there should have been hundreds of us with Skype
>> technology standing to give them a thunderous ovation.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> But maybe that is premature. Maybe they have not yet come to the best
>> part of their story and we are waiting breathlessly to hear the grand plan
>> and news.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> We hope we'll all see a satisfying sample of a ton of
>> well-crafted digital photos of the bird, it being delivered, identified,
>> diagnosed, treated and released. The results from the images being
>> flashed electronically to the best Golden Eagle minds available in at least
>> eastern North America. To learn how the experts affirmed and confirmed
>> anything and everything known about this juvenile and fledgling aging of
>> this Golden Eagle. The US Fish & Wildlife has said a fledgling is a
>> juvenile that has taken the first flight from the nest, but is not yet
>> independent.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> At least we will be excited to know how many weeks of age this fledgling
>> is and what sex the bird is. The protocols and standards are well known.
>> Sex is important because males and females have different tendencies to
>> wander.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> We are going to be amazed at how much TWRA has done during the past two
>> weeks the bird has been in captivity and while Somershoe has been up to his
>> elbows in diapers with his own fledgling which he has been helping care for
>> at home.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> It will be a thrill to see the names of all the advisors who have been
>> pulled into a quick response team to help guide TWRA thru these and
>> the pending, crucial, research opportunities that may not come our way
>> again for decades, if ever.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> This fledgling Golden Eagle, found near Cordell Hull Lake, in
>> upper Middle Tennessee, is going to be a data bonanza.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Todd Katzner, Bob Hatcher, Jeff Cooper, Trish Miller, Al Cecere and Dave
>> Buhler are the kinds of names we'll be hearing about. Cecere and guys like
>> Buhler probably all have shared excellent input about how to go quickly
>> high on the mountain with this opportunity. Hatcher was a TWRA non-game
>> and eagle guy years ago when that was a good thing.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> What they may already have in the works is a checklist of to-dos which
>> we'll see unfolding before our eyes within weeks if not months:****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> -- first is all the simple documentation mentioned above but also
>> probably the DNA samples which may tell us things our minds might never
>> have imagined. That probably goes without saying.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> -- not only will this bird be a public spectacle and public relations
>> coup for TWRA but it will carry another first. The first Golden Eagle
>> fledgling from this southern region to every go aloft carrying one of the
>> sexy and data-dumping, non-invasive, monitoring scheme of a novel
>> high-frequency GPS-GSM telemetry systems for tracking Golden Eagles among
>> other migratory birds. It uses solar -powered transmitters and
>> cellphone transmissions to relay satellite track data every few minutes or
>> even every few seconds as needed. It was designed by Katzner's company,
>> Cellular Tracking Technologies LLC. There are Golden Eagles transmitting
>> data with these systems over much of North America and even their breeding
>> areas in Canada. But maybe never ever from a fledgling Golden Eagle from
>> our southern region.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> -- for the first time we will know about any survival and what it
>> does for the next several years before it is old enough to breed. Does it,
>> too, breed in the region ? Is it part of a breeding population of Golden
>> Eagles we have known little about? Was it from a population that nest on
>> high elevation cliff faces or artificial structures or even in Tennessee
>> trees ?****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> -- will the tracking of this bird lead us back to its parents or even
>> near the nest where it was fledged ? Will we learn if it can't survive or
>> does not survive this first winter ? Where will it winter ? Will we know
>> the transmission signal has not moved for days and go to find it downed
>> again ? Can it once again be nursed back to health and make another try ?
>> Or do we simply retrieve the transmitter to be used another day by whomever
>> wants to own it and burry the carcass and end this adventure ?****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> -- as a fledgling, it may have been within a few short miles of where
>> it hatched or actually within sight of the nest when TWRA picked it up.
>> Will tracking lead us to where it roosts and what preference there is for a
>> Tennessee roost site ?****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> -- will we learn that TWRA has plans to bait the site with dead deer
>> carcasses this winter and affix cameras to monitor all around this area
>> with several such cameras and baitings ? Will we not only get wildlife cam
>> photos of the parents but also of this bird feasting at one of the
>> carcasses ? Will we find out there are a dozen Golden Eagles are more in
>> that vicinity ? The Bristol Bird Club's Clinch Mountain Golden Eagle group
>> determined with such a set up that we had 15 Golden Eagles wintering in
>> just one small part of Russell County, VA a year ago.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> -- will we soon find out that TWRA is following the same approach that
>> the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries has been busy at for
>> the past few winters by capturing those birds with a rocket net and placing
>> the Katzner-design satellite tracking units on them ? Then we will know
>> if our nesting birds are a sedentary couple that does not migrate but stays
>> in the area? Will we even learn, as Virginia and others have than wintering
>> birds wander over a large area that may include hundreds of miles of
>> regular winter travel around the area ? Will this fledgling or other
>> tracked adults wander off into the Cumberland's for a few weeks or wherever
>> ? And, with tracking units, find where they are nesting and watch next
>> year's nest to see if more fledglings survive into the wilds of Tennessee ?
>> ****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> -- will we learn that this is the first step in allowing TWRA to help
>> guide the placement of wind turbines on our mountain tops and protect our
>> wintering Golden Eagles and Bald Eagles ?****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> -- it was not like Somershoe needed to leaves messages and try to
>> introduce himself to Katzner with babbling baby eagle talk. Scott is a
>> member of Katzner's prestigious Eastern Golden Eagle Working Group which is
>> based out of the University of West Virginia. Scott has been working in
>> collaboration with biologists and wildlife managers from the US and Canada
>> dedicated to developing a more complete understanding of Golden Eagle life
>> history and ecology throughout eastern North America.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> -- Katzner has recently been to Canada to see for himself where and
>> what was going on with a Golden Eagle found injured in New York state and
>> sent back to the wild with one of his hi-tech telemetry units. It was an
>> amazing research effort and it was fascinating what he learned.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> -- Jeff Cooper is also a member of that team. He is a Tennessee Tech
>> University graduate who is working with Golden Eagle telemetry for the
>> Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. He probably has more
>> than two dozen satellite-tracked Golden Eagles in Canada right now which he
>> trapped in western Virginia during winter and is studying them. In early
>> 2010, Cooper and his colleagues captured four Golden Eagles here and
>> outfitted them with GPS transmitters. All four headed north by mid-April
>> and then spent the breeding season on the Ungava Peninsula in northern
>> Quebec. Cooper gets back to Cookeville every now and then and was there
>> not long ago -- just a few miles down the road from where the fledgling was
>> picked up by TWRA. Cooper is one of Katzner's important Golden Eagle
>> guys. They recently spent time this early summer in the western part of
>> the country with Cooper climbing to many Golden Eagle nests. He can smell
>> the air and tell you the age of a fledgling.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> -- Katzner-type satellite tracking units probably will cost only
>> about $2,500 at the present. Surely, all of these excellent biologists who
>> feed at the trough of many hundreds of thousands if not a combined million
>> dollars worth of research have responded to TWRA about how and where to
>> fetch one on the spur of the moment. If this fledgling Golden Eagle does
>> not make it more than a few days back in the wild, then there is a good
>> opportunity to get the unit back and cash it in to whomever sold it to TWRA
>> --but all of that has probably been thought thru very carefully. Even what
>> computer system could be used to download the tracking of this bird. We'll
>> probably learn that TWRA plans do that in downtown Nashville.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> -- hopefully, down the road, we will learn that Virginia can help
>> Tennessee learn how to quickly get going with Golden Eagle trapping during
>> the winter if we then know where eagles can be found. Of course that is
>> depending on how much time guys like Cooper can spare while working at goal
>> of trapping and putting transmitters on 90 Bald Eagles on a military base
>> in eastern Virginia starting this winter. ****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Perhaps the Tennessee Ornithological Society has been asked for emergency
>> approval to fund the transmitter for $2,500. It would be one of the good
>> things they do on a rainy day with a rainy day****
>>
>> bank account surplus.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Just can't wait......****
>>
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>> Wallace Coffey****
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>> Bristol, TN****
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