SOLON, Iowa (KCRG) – Bald eagles, once nearly gone from Iowa, are now a common sight across the state.
Dave Conrads with the Iowa Raptor Project said he never saw a bald eagle growing up in Iowa until he was 21 years old at Lake Red Rock in 1986. He said the pesticide DDT, once used on farmers’ crops, was the culprit.
“With the onset of DDT after World War II, that got into the fish and that got into the eagles,” Conrads said…