The Murphy administration recently adopted regulatory changes that remove the bald eagle and osprey from New Jersey’s list of endangered species. The status of the bald eagle shifts from endangered to special concern, and the osprey from threatened to stable. The delisting, said Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette, reflects more than 40 years of work to restore these iconic birds to the state’s landscape.
These status upgrades are based on determinations by the DEP’s Fish and Wildlife agency that “the populations of these…
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