The law was passed by a 4-2 vote this time after the owner of the petting farm got his people on the city council. They have tried 5 times before to accomplish this and lost. They tried to get a resolution passed by Alaska Fish & Game, but the game board turned down 4 resolutions by this group. So the biology doesn't support this small group. When they lost this with Fish & Game, they then tried a local ordinance. If I had the money, I would buy land just outside the city limits and feed the Eagles year around just to piss off this group of people. Sorry about the language, but it just gripes my soul when people get laws, bills and ordinances passed about Fish & Game matters
that has more to do with politics instead of biology.
The damage that was sited was about an Eagle that attacked one of the birds on the petting farm one summer. Now keep in mind that the Eagles are only fed during the winter months and ends around the middle of March to the end of March. The 400+ Eagles that were being fed leaves to go back where they came from before the feeding. The Eagles are fed Salmon scraps, a natural food for them. Next year when I see Eagles feeding at the Homer dump, I am going to try real hard to get the City of Homer cited for breaking their own law.