POSITION STATEMENTS of THE RAPTOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Black Vultures

2001 Formal comments on the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s American Peregrine Falcon (Falcon peregrinus anatum) Proposed Monitoring Plan.

2003 Comment on the USDA Wildlife Service’s request to kill up to 4,000 Black Vultures in Virginia.

2003 Technical Review of the Status of Northern Goshawks in the Western United States.

2006 Raptor Research Foundation Comments on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Bald Eagle Delisting Documents.

2008 Comments on the Status Review for the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the Sonoran Desert Area of Central Arizona and Northwestern Mexico (73 FR 29096).

2008 Comments on the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed Colville River Special Area Management Plan.

2011 Scientific research shows that lead (Pb) from spent ammunition causes death and sickness to Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles and other wildlife, and limits the reestablishment of the California Condor population.

2012 Comment on Draft Environmental Assessment to Permit Take as Provided under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act for the West Butte Wind Project,Oregon.

2012  Commendation of India’s Minister of Environment and Forests in curtailing illegal killing of Amur Falcons in Northeastern India.