TACOMA — A timber manager who had a tree with an eagle’s nest cut down in Clallam County has been sentenced in Tacoma to two months in prison.
At Tuesday’s sentencing in federal court, Magistrate Judge Karen Strombom said she had no choice but to send Timothy Allen to prison because he lied to investigators.
The 52-year-old Elma man now admits he paid a subcontractor $500 to cut down the tree in early 2004 on property that was being prepared for development. The U.S. attorney’s office in Seattle says he pleaded guilty in December 2008.
Although eagles were removed from the Endangered Species Act in 2007, they remain protected by other federal and state laws.
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