A Mora woman has paid a $2,500 fine for killing a bald eagle.

Forty-eight-year-old Katherine K. Tramm paid the fine July 15th after an investigation by the state Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minneapolis.

State conservation officers received a complaint last October 10th about an eagle being killed in Mora.

DNR Commissioner Mark Holsten says he hopes the case sends a strong message that the agency won't allow abuses of conservation laws to go unpunished.

The bald eagle was listed as an endangered species from 1967 until last year, when it was removed from the federal list. But the birds and their nests and eggs remain protected from being killed, sold or otherwise harmed.