MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS • June 28, 2022
On June 28, 2007, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it was removing the American bald eagle from the nation's list of threatened and endangered species. The eagle population hit rock bottom in 1963, when only 417 mating pairs could be documented in the 48 states and the survival of the species was in question. It was one of the first species to be declared endangered. By 2007, biologists had counted nearly 10,000 mating pairs of bald eagles, with at least one pair in each of the lower 48 states.