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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Old Abe, the Famous Bald Eagle
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:09
	Publish Date:		2019-02-18 05:00:00
	Description:		Few Wisconsin natives rise to national fame and gain recognition for over a hundred years. The Masked Biologist shares the story of one such resident, a bald eagle, in this week’s Wildlife Matters . Writing is rewarding for me for a lot of reasons, including continually expanding my own knowledge base. Recently, one of my articles was about wolverines, and I read that the remains of a taxidermy mount of a supposed Wisconsin origin wolverine were destroyed in one of the fires in the Wisconsin Capitol building. I was intrigued, so I decided to do a little more research. During that time, I learned that when the taxidermy mounts were lost, another victim was Old Abe, the stuffed civil war eagle. This was new information for me. I was surprised to learn we ever had a civil war eagle. In fact, Old Abe eventually became the symbol of the 101 st Airborne, probably the most readily recognized animal mascot of any in the US military. Apparently in 1861, Chief Big Sky (member of the Flambeau
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