Hanford Site Bald Eagle Monitoring Report for Fiscal Year 2014

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/3006934· OSTI ID:3006934

Cranna, Kevin C. ^[1]; Lindsey, Cole T. ^[1]; Nugent, John J. ^[1]; Wilde, Justin W. ^[1]

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1. Mission Support Alliance, LLC, Hanford, WA (United States)

The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) plays an important predatory role in the ecosystem and also serves as a national symbol for the United States of America. In 2007, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) determined that the population of bald eagles in the lower 48 States had sufficiently recovered, so the species could be removed from the federal endangered and threatened species list. The State of Washington also down-listed Bald Eagles from threatened to sensitive. Federal laws including the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act of 1940 and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 still provide protection for eagles, their nest trees, and communal night roosts. The National Bald Eagle Management Guidelines, produced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, provides monitoring and management guidance for Bald Eagles (USFWS 2007). The Department of Energy (DOE) Richland Operations Office has the Bald Eagle Management Plan for the Hanford Site, South-Central Washington (DOE 2013), which defines appropriate protection measures for nests and roost sites based on federal and state guidelines. Monitoring is essential to maintain current biological information about bald eagle abundance and distribution on the Hanford Site, to ensure compliance with protection regulations, and to inform future protection and management efforts.

• Research Organization: Mission Support Alliance, LLC, Hanford, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-09RL14728
• OSTI ID: 3006934
• Report Number(s): HNF--58547-Rev.0
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English