The day began with a drive across the desert, checking the snares he had placed in the sagebrush to catch coyotes. Gary Strader, an employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, stepped out of his truck near a ravine in Nevada and found something he hadn’t intended to kill. There, strangled in a neck snare, was one of the most majestic birds in America, a federally protected golden eagle.
Link: Sacramento Bee