POWELL — While hunting for a moose in Montana, Hannah Leonard came across a golden eagle on the ground, its talons clenched and wings drooping. It was right below some power lines, so the grad school student assumed the eagle had been electrocuted.
Leonard started hunting while seeking her master’s degree, joking she has “adult onset hunting.”
“[It] sounds like a disease, and my wallet would probably say that it is as well,” she told a crowd during a Lunchtime Lecture in the Coe Auditorium at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. “At the time I didn’t know about lead-free [ammunition] or anything like that. I just knew this bird was in trouble.”…