http://juked.com/2017/11/clinton-crockett-peters-raptors-hunting.asp

“In 1939 when Swiss chemist Paul Müller brainstormed DDT, the well-intended death potion seemed a cure-all for plagues. It rescued Naples from typhus in ’43 when Allies de-loused the rubble-strewn town. Müller won the Nobel in 1948, around the same time peregrine populations began crashing. Weakened, DDT-ed eggs crushed as if beneath the march of boots. The peregrines fell so hard, ten million dollars drained away to recover them, then thirty-million. In all, as much as one hundred million dollars (and the DDT ban) was needed to save the world’s fastest living thing.

Hiking outside Boise, Dwayne hoped to see a peregrine take a songbird on the wing. We wished for the slow turning shadow appearing in the sun and then a knife flash across the sky. Target chosen, enemy acquired…”