North Dakota Outdoors: The Endangered Species Act turns 50

I can easily recall in the late 1980s seeing an endangered bald eagle feeding on a deer carcass off the road west of Napoleon in Logan County. Back in those days, if you saw a bald eagle and you could take a picture, you did. At the least you mentally marked the date, time and place and you made sure to phone it in. It was a big deal.

While I'm still partial to the sight of a bald eagle, it's beco...