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Wednesday, June 16, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Eagles' population soaring
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Claspill says people's callousness toward the eagles make restrictions necessary.
"You've got to keep away from them on account of the morons," he says. "There's plenty of lake to fish in."
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These eagles, says Rasmussen, are part of a national comeback for the endangered species. Thirty years ago, habitat destruction and the damaging effects of DDT, an insecticide, brought it close to extinction.
Where the eagles are
However, the eagle population is on the rise. In 1990, 3,104 known bald eagle nests were counted in the continental United States. In 1980, only 1,188 nests could be found.
The eagles at Clinton Lake do their part to add to the population, Rasmussen says. With the exception of 1989, when the pair hatched only two chicks, they have produced three every year.
Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Kanaan staff reports
John Paul Fogel/KANSAM
"They're a pretty prolific pair," Rasmussen savs.
Eagles have to be prolific. Rasmussen says scientists estimated the mortality rate for eagles during their first year at 70 percent. Weather and a lack of food take most of the toll, but poaching also is a factor.
At least one of their offspring has survived. One now has a mate and nests as Hillsdale Lake, about 25 miles southeast of Lawrence.
The rangers keep track of the eagles with a system of tagging that is only moderately successful. Only five of the offspring and one of the adults have been caught and tagged.
"After they see their siblings
trapped, they're not dumb enough to get trapped themselves," she said.
In July, they will probably fly north to cooler areas, although Rasmussen says nobody really knows where the eagles go from July to October.
On any given weekend during the spring, Dan Amspacker, Olathe, can be found watching the eagles from the gravel road that leads to the edge of the lake.
--his telescope on one of the adults.
Although he has seen the eagles every year since their arrival he is one of the few that have been born in Alaska.
hurriesope on the outskirts.
"Really, when I'm out hunting, it's just an excuse to check out Mother Nature." he said.
He bristles with the idea of poaching or hurting the eagles is mentioned.
"I'd better not hear about it," he says. He listens to their chirps as they carry 350 yards across the lake, then stops to look at the countryside before returning to his view through the telescope. He does not like the fact that people can use the land around the nest.
"I can't believe what they've done to this area," he says. "And to think there are still eagles around."
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