An Ohioan who shot and killed an eagle, has to pay a $10,000 fine to the court, $10,000 in restitution to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have the scoped rifle he used destroyed & be forbidden from hunting for five years, as part of a plea agreement.
in Ohio since 1979 when there were only four known active nesting sites of the regal bird in the state.Just ask David B. Huff. Last October, while inspecting his land in Tuscarawas County for groundhogs, the 79-year-old Huff shot and killed a bald eagle from a distance of nearly 100 feet. He then dragged the raptor into a tree line bordering his property.
When he is sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge Carmen Henderson in October, Huff faces a maximum of one year in prison for the misdemeanor offense, but federal guidelines call for a sentence of somewhere between zero and six months, said Huff’s attorney, Kevin Lundholm. The act prevents hunting, shooting or essentially harming bald eagles in any way. It also prevents the birds from being bought or sold, transported or disturbed, even if they are dead. The restrictions extend to the eagle’s nest and eggs. And if you find an eagle feather on the ground, you can pick it up, but then you have to put it back where you found it.
“He does not get his Living honestly,” Franklin wrote. “You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.”
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