The Fort Apache scout., 1963-07-01

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BY
HOWARD WOOD

ANYBODY SEEN any eyesseS lately? We don't any,
momentary ever, but isn't that intriguing eye
sxbit word for falcon fish hawk Even seeing
isn't easy because they hide ees high up edgeS
until ready fly; moreover around eyre
gyrfalcon will shred your face and hands in wink
The above, friends, is just sneaky way of asking if any
body has bald eagle lately the National Audu-
bon Society, organization checking this vanishing
national bird would like report
recently before coming here the redwood
anS OF California The stately black bird sat on dead limb his
piercing glarng at stopped mountain
road Custy winds howed through giant and dark clouds
splitting rain, Scudded across the sky.
The eagle adult male than five years of age,
because yonggs do not early develop the white head and tail
feathers This birds head pure white and when he left the
limb finally the teta1e white tail features he scared
aloft on wings with five-foot spread
This Americas symbol in the flesh; bird the
possibility of extinction is eminent!
WE SAW him high, cavorting in the winds buff
feted by gusts, dipping, crclmg enjoying the sport
of it. though his belly have been empty because of
Two smaller eagles, females surely, joined the monarch
on high flying up from another ridge where they evidently
had been awaiting the finding of food by the male hunter
They Joined the fun and kept for half hour more
until they finally drifted Of sight taller mountains
to the east.
reported the incident the Audubon Society headquar-
in New York describing the big bird They replied by
saying had indeed sight California the
SoceyS 1862 check resulted spotng only 38 bald eagles
there during thatyear
THE SOCIETY also sent recent copy of the Audubon Maga
zne which the 1862 inventory nesting eagle survey
for 1862 The article opens by stating that the bald eagle
A percent Of 1858 under breeding observations the
tiguous 48 states produced young eagles in 1862
The survey revealed also that bald eagles being shot in
large numbers OF all dead eagles reported last II percent
were shot
So anyway you look it. the bald eagle population is
becoming Scany indeed Your chance of seeing here in
Apacheand grows less and less last years Audubon tally
turned only in Arizona five adults and two young
lmgS
Florida the bald eagle haven of America total of
500 birds being spotted there in 1862 Illinois next with
49, followed by South Dakota with 273 Missouri with 246
and other states trailing with smaller numbers Utah. how
reported A. all adults New Mexico counted
21 Colorado 1l5
Steps toward eagle management presently underway.
The first cooperative bald eagle sanctuary operating
Florida So far SO ranches have agreed put $4,000
into protected Sxtyfve eagle nests located
this land projects underway, and this is good
Thinking again. might be just dandy eyeSs.
You could train him with hood and leg leash called jesse
When trained the grOwnup eyeS could do all your fishing
and hunting for yOu
WILDLIFE IN the green world is becoming increasingly
scarce and none should be destroyed without good
When still little, remember sat back porch at
young Connecticut early the last century Passenger pigeons
darkened the skies, and then they became decacy fancy
Thus the fate of that beautiful bird sealed
The last passenger pigeon died in captivity around 1917
We all know the sad fate of the buffalo, slaughtered by
the millions by early pioneers Hunters killed them tor
their tongues shipping these to eastern markets. leaving the
carcasseS and hides to rot where they fell!
Only few buffalo remain, under management.
The great California condor is still with in small
numbers only because of valiant few who have fought
for the rare birds very existence. The condor is at home
in craggy sanctuary in the mountains Santa Barbara
When oil discovered this sanctuary years ago.
friends OF cOndOrS made such howl that plans to haul noisy
drilling the abandoned The least noise
condor nests will them to fly away to return
And the world still contains human beings with good
in their hearts More of them needed, though we