India, Oct. 17 -- A theme park is probably not the first place you would look for bald eagles. Yet for 35 years, Dollywood in Tennessee was home to a large group of them. The American Eagle Foundation and Dollywood Parks & Resorts jointly announced that the non-releasable bald eagles that lived at Dollywood's Eagle Mountain Sanctuary will have their permanent home on the foundation's 50-acre campus in Kodak, Tenn. The foundation announced the news on August 21, 2026, months after a storm hit the sanctuary.

The Eagle Mountain Sanctuary opened in April 1991, and Dolly Parton participated in the grand opening, where a bald eagle was ceremonially released into the newly built habitat. Since 1991, the American Eagle Foundation has worked with...