History+of+Hawk+Mountain



The history of hawk mountain is very interesting. A brief summary of this story is that hawks were being killed by hunters. So many hawks got shot. Blue Mountain (Hawk Mountain) had hunters shooting for one bird that was expensive. They could not tell the difference so they just shot every bird they saw. When somebody tried to tell them, " stop, thats a red-tailed hawk," people would shoot anyway. A man named Maurice Broun found an article and he wanted to do something about this. Some pictures taken by Richard Pough were pictures of dead birds lined up next to each other. Maurice saw these pictures and decided to do something. He went to Blue Mountain to help stop the shooting. Nothing happened until somebody named Rosalie Edge bought Blue Mountain and she reinforced rules on shooting birds so that nobody could shoot them. Maurice got a letter from Rosalie to be a warden on Hawk Mountain. Maurice took the job and now Hawk Mountain is for bird watchers and not hunters.