Young golden eagle rescued from Lyle Hill wildfire burning in Washington
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A six-week-old golden eagle is now recovering at an Oregon wildlife clinic after being rescued from the Lyle Hill wildfire burning on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge.
By DREW MARINE
While working that wildfire, the Meadow Fallers – a firefighting-timber felling crew, found an injured six-week-old golden eagle.
“The oaks around it didn’t burn, they don’t tend to burn too well, so it had a little bit of shelter there, but the ground was definitely all black, singed and smoldering around where the eagle was standing,” Todd Jacobsen, a Wildlife Conflict Specialist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, said.