Return To The Sky By Tina Morris — Review
A moving memoir by one of the first women to ever lead a raptor reintroduction project.
Bald Eagle fishing in Kachemak Bay, Alaska. (Credit: Andy Morffew / CC BY 2.0)
There was a time, not so very long ago, when bald eagles were exceedingly rare, especially in the lower 48 states, having declined from roughly 400,000 birds in the 1800s to just 417 nesting pairs by the 1950s. The fact is that, by 1970, most Americans had never seen a bald e…
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