Currently, biologists estimate that there are approximately 50,000 eagles in Alaska. Not bad considering that in the late 1940s, the population was about half or even less than what it is today. Today there are more bald eagles in Alaska than anywhere else in the United States. Alaska has an abundance of prime eagle habitat. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service strives to conduct ongoing, highly-visible eagle outreach throughout the State.
Biologists conduct surveys to locate and protect nesting areas and other key eagle habitats.
The FWS Law Enforcement Division routinely offers rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of individuals who kill or harm eagles. Several eagle rehabilitation programs in the State strive to rehabilitate and release them, and eagles that are unable to return to the wild are kept for education purposes. Our goal is to have all Alaskan residents know that even without protection of the ESA, it is illegal to kill or possess any part of an eagle of any species. Human disturbance of eagles, their nests, eggs or young is also a violation of federal law. In 1917 Alaska's Territorial Legislature imposed a bounty on eagles.