U.S. Fish & Wildfire Service Announces Final Rule to Protect Eagles through Revised Permitting, Monitoring Requirements

WASHINGTON – The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service Wednesday announced it has finalized a rule that will help protect and conserve eagle populations through revised permitting processes and monitoring requirements. The revised rule engages a variety of industries more fully in eagle conservation and helps the Service better understand how human activities across the landscape affect eagles. The rule includes revisions to the permitting system for unintentional prohibited impacts to eagles and will help protect local populations by providing much-needed information to support greater scientific understanding and decision-making.

The findings represent a compilation of the most current research on the population status and trends of bald and golden eagles and serve as the biological basis for the final rule. Native Americans are considered a potentially affected environmental justice community. The impacts of the proposed action on Native Americans are discussed in detail in 3.7 Cultural and Religious Issues.

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