For seven years Sharpe and members of the Institute for Wildlife Studies have been fighting to save eagles from the residual effects of DDT, a now-banned pesticide that had been dumped in the area years ago. Once in the food chain, the chemical made the eagles' eggshells so fragile, they would crack when the mothers sat on them.
Sharpe and his colleagues fight back with a kind of bait and switch: First, they snatch the real eggs and replace them with fakes made of resin. The real eggs are rushed to the San Francisco Zoo and incubated; about two weeks later Sharpe ferries newborns back to their nests (89 have been reunited since the program began in 1980). Says Kathy Hobson, the zoo's eagle project manager: "We couldn't put eagles in the wild without him."
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!















