A Washington state man who pleaded guilty to killing eagles on a Native American reservation in Montana is facing sentencing Thursday.
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The prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Missoula to impose a"significant" prison sentence and order restitution of over $750,000. They seek $5,000 for each eagle killed and $1,750 for each hawk.His public defender asked for his client to be sentenced to probation.Federal Defender Andrew Nelson also disputed the restitution amount, saying it was too high for the eagles and the hawks should not be counted.
Bald eagles, once highly imperiled by the pesticide DDT, have bounced back in recent decades and the species is now thriving. The recovery of golden eagles has been more tenuous and researchers have warned that the population is on the brink of decline due to shootings, poisonings, electrocutions on power lines, collisions with wind turbines and other threats.
Branson made between $180,000 and $360,000 from 2009 to 2021 selling bald and golden eagle parts illegally, court records said.
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