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 […]
Threatened spotted owl in decline due to barred owl
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, […]
Supreme Court rebuffs ranchers on Mexican Spotted Owl
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 […]
Timber law becomes vast entitlement for some states
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 […]
Spotted-owl recovery gets another look from Obama administration
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 […]
New Battle of Logging vs. Spotted Owls Looms in West
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 […]