Nancy Cowan has been a falconer since the beginning.
Sarah Kinney, Concord Monitor
Well, not the beginning of hunting with a bird of prey, which dates back thousands of years, but the beginning of the sport in New Hampshire.
Cowan’s husband, Jim, influenced the law that allowed birds of prey a legal way to hunt wild game in the mid-1980s. She helped him with the legislation, but didn’t think she’d get drawn into falconry herself.
