{"id":464039,"date":"2026-02-12T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/464039\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:54:08","slug":"sandy-steers-who-helped-bring-big-bear-eagles-jackie-and-shadow-to-the-world-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/464039\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Steers, who helped bring Big Bear eagles Jackie and Shadow to the world, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, February 12, 2026 8:55AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Sandy Steers, who helped bring Jackie and Shadow to the world, dies\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BIG BEAR, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Sandy Steers, the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley and a familiar face to many who follow the famed Big Bear eagles Jackie and Shadow, has died, the organization announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Friends of Big Bear Valley shared the news in a social media post, saying Steers died Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No additional details about the circumstances of her death have been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Steers helped launch the livestream cameras that offer a close-up look at the daily lives of Jackie and Shadow and the eggs they have laid over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She appeared multiple times on Eyewitness News, where she spoke about the famous Big Bear couple and their eaglets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The group said more information will be provided at a later time.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, February 12, 2026 8:55AM BIG BEAR, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Sandy Steers, the executive director of Friends of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[216143,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-464039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-216143","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}