Northern Spotted Owl Photo US FWS
A couple of years ago, I attended a meeting of the Deschutes Collaborative. Spotted Owls and wildfire was the topic that day. The meeting was a classic example of how collaboratives selectively use science to justify more logging of our forests.
The two-hour meeting featured a […]
Continue Reading →Northern spotted owl declines about 4% a year-
Throughout its range in the United States, the northern spotted owl has declined at nearly 4% a year from 1985 to 2013, according to a paper published in the Condor. The findings came from eleven study areas in northern California, Oregon and Washington. The owl […]
Continue Reading →A welcome surprise-
High court rejects appeal in spotted owl dispute. “The Supreme Court has decided to let stand a Bush administration designation of 8.6 million acres in four Western states as critical habitat for an endangered owl.” Associated Press.
Continue Reading →Law to help logging communities after the spotted owl-induced logging reductions now pours money into areas where there have never been spotted owls-
Timber law becomes vast entitlement. By Matthew Daly and Shannon Dinninny. Associated Press Writers
Continue Reading →Bush policy on the issue called “train wreck,” “unfixable”-
Spotted-owl recovery gets another look from Obama administration. By Warren Cornwall. Seattle Times environment reporter “The Obama administration signaled Tuesday that it wants to scrap a controversial Bush-era plan for spotted-owl recovery, asking a federal district court judge to let them rewrite it, rather than defend […]
Continue Reading →While Bush and Cheney (it seems especially Cheney) are gearing up for war with Iran, folks in this lame duck Administration are trying gin up the timber wars of the early to mid-1990s.
This should be a settled matter, especially because the whole thing was not really about the spotted owl but the conservation of […]
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