Reward offered
A $2,500 reward is offered for information in Meigs and Rhea counties leading to the arrest and prosecution of the person or persons responsible for shooting two bald eagles Jan. 30 and Feb. 1, respectively. Anyone with information about those shootings should call the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency’s Region III office at 931-484-9571 or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at 615-736-5532.
Officials with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are investigating the shooting of two bald eagles in the Tennessee River Valley. Both eagles were transported to the Avian and Exotics service at the University of Tennessee Veterinary Medical Center, but the injuries sustained were incurable and both were euthanized.
Officials with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are investigating the shooting of two bald eagles in the Tennessee River Valley. Both eagles were transported to the Avian and Exotics service at the University of Tennessee Veterinary Medical Center, but the injuries sustained were incurable and both were euthanized.
Officials with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are investigating the shooting of two bald eagles in the Tennessee River Valley. Both eagles were transported to the Avian and Exotics service at the University of Tennessee Veterinary Medical Center, but the injuries sustained were incurable and both were euthanized.The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is offering a $2,500 reward for information on the shootings of two bald eagles last week in Meigs and Rhea counties.
Both eagles were found alive but were so seriously injured they had to be euthanized. The reward, a combined $5,000 in the two counties, stems from an investigation launched by the TWRA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
“Bleeding-heart Liberals and right-wing nut cases can agree that this was a bipartisan atrocity,” one man wrote on the Times Free Press Facebook page.
State and federal officials continue to probe the shotgun killings of two of the nation’s symbols, the first a female bald eagle found Jan. 30 in Meigs County off State Route 68 near State Route 58; and the second, a male bald eagle found Feb. 1 along Abby Lane, just north of Highway 60 in Rhea County.