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Aerial Allies

ESLEY BROWN WAS STANDING on the desert floor last spring, watching his friend ascend a towering Utah cliff, when a Golden Eagle soared overhead. It was Brown’s first close encounter with a raptor since becoming a climber steward, a role that includes educating his peers about the birds of prey that nest at Indian Creek Special Recreation Management Area. “That day

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