An anonymous $100,000 donation will speed up plans for the American Bald Eagle Foundation to provide flight training for rehabilitated birds.
The money – which arrived July 16 as a check from the San Francisco-based Schwaab Charitable Fund – will pay to build two chain-mesh cages where birds will regain their strength and learn to fly again.
“We were thinking it was maybe $500. (Foundation founder) Dave (Olerud) opened the envelope and just stared at…

