Up this way, it's a very common sight to see eagles feeding on deer carcasses along the roadside. Of course, especially at this time of year, it's likely that those are road killed deer and not hunter killed deer. But they do a lot of scavenging.

Can't say I know a lot about the golden eagle population, but the bald eagle population has made a miraculous recovery after DDT was banned and after the ban on lead shot for waterfowl. (Eagles do a lot of scavenging around water.) Used to be the only place we saw them in Iowa was along the Mississippi, and then very rarely. Before I moved to WI in 2010, it wasn't at all unusual to see them some distance from major bodies of water.