Eagle's Plume: The Struggle to Preserve the Life and Haunts of America's Bald Eagle

by Bruce Beans

Everyone likes a success story, and the bald eagle in recent years certainly qualifies as one. Environmental writer Bruce E. Beans finds enlightening stories of eagles thriving, from dozens of birds... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684806967
• ISBN13: 9780684806969
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

A compelling story of the saving of the Eagle

I found this book to be, much to my surprise, a very good read. Examples: The story of the college professor hoarding illegal poisons to sell to ranchers which are then used to kill eagles and coyotes; the retired man who learned to climb 100 ft trees to band eaglets; the Indians who kill, buy and sell eagles and eagle parts for profit; the western ranchers who live off government subsidies but who feel free to kill eagles as pests. There are many heros and bad guys in this book, including undercover agents risking their lives to catch the bad guys. But the good guys are winning and the eagles are going to make it back. A very good and readable book.

Well researched book on eagle's and their endangered habitat

EagleÍs Plume, by naturalist Bruce E. Beans, is an ambitious book well rendered. In search of bald eagles and the reasons for their recent endangered status and remarkable ñcomeback,î Beans travels from threatened New Jersey wetlands to the wilds of Alaska and provides memorable portraits of heroes and villains as well as indelible images of this most majestic raptor. Readers (in all likelihood, the majority) who have never seen an eagle in the wild will not soon forget his descriptions of the bird in fl