BOISE, Idaho -- Peregrine falcons already had been under federal protection for eight years by the time Jamie Rappaport Clark found her calling while studying the rare bird of prey in college."I've waited for a long time to say these five words: The peregrine falcon is back," Clark, now director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said Tuesday, as she announced a proposal to remove the world's fastest bird from the endangered species list.
From a low of 324 nesting pairs in 1975 -- five years after the falcon gained federal protection and three years after the pesticide DDT was banned in the United States -- there are now almost 1,600 pairs from the forests of Alaska and Canada south to Mexico.
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