On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Welden & Virginia Clark wrote:

> The Bald Eagle aerial survey of the WA coastline that you began, and that
> Anita McMillan, Shelley Ament and others have continued for many years
> within DWFW would apparently have been discontinued this year had not
> Shelley scrounged funding from NGOs and contributed her own time.

Shelley kept some of the Bald Eagle nesting survey work alive but, as far
as I can tell, most of it was terminated, both for lack of funds to pay
for the aircraft and de-prioritization of the species for the purposes of
allocating staff time.

>From my own point-of-view, there are so many species in greater jeopardy
than Bald Eagles, and so few staff days to accomplish needed work, it's
a good decision to cut back on Bald Eagle activities. I would love to see
the dataset continue to develop into the distant future but all of us who
look at Wildlife Diversity budget every year realize what a huge chunk has
gone to Bald Eagles while other species go unattended.

Kelly McAllister
District Wildlife Biologist
Thurston and Pierce Counties