AMAZING WHAT A HUNTING BAN WILL DO:

Bald Eagle to Be Taken Off Endangered List (Peter Slevin, 12/25/06, Washington Post)

Seven years after the U.S. government moved to take the bald eagle off the endangered species list, the Bush administration intends to complete the step by February, prodded by a frustrated libertarian property owner in Minnesota.

The delisting, supported by mainstream environmental groups, would represent a formal declaration that the eagle population has sufficiently rebounded, increasing more than 15-fold since its 1963 nadir to more than 7,000 nesting pairs.