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Harvey Webster, Director of Wildlife Resources at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, will chronicle the history of the Bald Eagle in the Ohio and explore the amazing story of its return.
At the time of European contact in the 1600s, the Bald Eagle enjoyed a range that encompassed most of North America. It was emblematic of the great natural wealth of the United States and was selected to be the symbol for our great nation. Yet over the intervening years it endured relentless persecution, loss of habitat and contamination of its environment. By the 1970s its breeding range had contracted to only a handful of states, its numbers had withered and it was designated as an endangered species. An amazing partnership of public and private conservation agencies banded together to save Bald Eagles and restore their populations. The story is a conservation success we can all celebrate.
Sponsored by the Friends of the North Royalton Branch Library.
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