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In June 1934, a New York widow borrowed $500 to lease 1,400 acres of Pennsylvania ridge where gunners shot migrating hawks for sport, then bought the ground outright four years later for roughly $3,500. The sanctuary now covers 2,600 acres, and its counters had logged 1,029 raptors by September 5, 2026

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (146+ words) Edited by Nato Lagidze One woman's $500 bet transformed a killing field into a sanctuary where thousands of raptors now pass safely each fall. That distinction matters for accuracy: the commonly repeated figure of “$2,500 to buy the mountain outright” appears to…...