Wyo. project looks at energy-eagles relationship

Researchers are trying to learn whether bald eagles are affected by natural gas infrastructure in western Wyoming. Biologists have outfitted six bald eagles with GPS transmitters that will record the location of each bird every hour for the next three or four years. The research was funded by a $60,000 grant from the Pinedale Anticline Project Office. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is participating in the project. Jackson Hole biologists Bryan Bedrosian says the project will gather detailed information on where the eagles nest, forage and winter. Bedrosian says it will require some interesting analysis to ascertain the true impacts of the gas fields on the bald eagles because researchers don't have data from when there were no gas wells.