Revival takes bald eagle off threatened list

By Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports

Photo by Bloomberg News/Carol T. Powers

Challenger, a a 19-year-old male bald eagle, flies near the Jefferson Memorial during a news conference with Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on Thursday. Kempthorne declared that the national bird is no longer threatened with extinction after four decades on the endangered species list.

ADVERSTISMENT

The government took the American bald eagle off the endangered-species list Thursday - an official act of name-dropping that President Bush hailed as "a wonderful way" to celebrate the Fourth of July.

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