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Governor: Az's eagles need shield

The Tucson Citizen

PHOENIX - Gov. Janet Napolitano is urging the federal government to keep Arizona's bald eagles on the endangered-species list.

In a letter Wednesday to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, Napolitano cited Arizona's unique geographic habitat and the cultural concerns of Arizona tribes, which are uniformly in favor of maintaining the endangered-species protection.

Kempthorne announced the delisting of the nearly 11,000 breeding pairs of bald eagles as endangered in the lower 48 states on Thursday. His department made the recovery official by removing the eagle from the list of threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The bird had been reclassified from endangered to threatened in 1995.

Posted by Editor at June 29, 2007 07:39 AM

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