Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack Davis says the best place to see a bald eagle is.....THE DUMP in Manatee County?!?! Davis has just published a book called The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird. It’s a redemption story that tells the history of our nation’s conflicting relationship with its symbolic bird. So, to find some eagles, we went to the one place where we were guaranteed success—the Manatee County landfill.
In flat Florida, the Lena Road Landfill is one of the highest landmarks in the area, where nearly 350,000 tons of trash are piled skyward each year. It’s also home to one of the largest and most consistent concentrations of bald eagles in Florida, a state with one of the largest populations of bald eagles in the nation.
Read the full story at Sarasota Magazine.