According to court documents, Branson, who lives in Cusick, Washington, sold two sets of golden eagle tail feathers for $650 to an unknown buyer in March 2021. These feathers are highly valued ...

Immature golden eagle feathers are especially valued among tribes, and a tail set from one of the birds can sell for several hundred dollars apiece, according to details disclosed during a ...

He also received a golden eagle from the government repository years after applying ... “I had to get someone to show me how to pluck it, take the feathers off, tail feathers, talons, head and things ...