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By 1940, bald eagle numbers had decreased to the point where Congress feared the species was in danger of extinction. The Bald Eagle Protection Act made it a crime to kill, disturb or trade in the national bird. This law ended a longstanding bounty system in Alaska that had provoked the killing of more than 100,000 bald eagles.The eagle's comeback prompted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reclassify the species in the 1995 as threatened rather than endangered in the lower 48 states (the nearly 50,000 bald eagles in Alaska are not protected under the act because they are not at risk).
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