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Loggers Get the OK to Kill Endangered Spotted Owls | Care2 Causes
Loggers Get the OK to Kill Endangered Spotted Owls | Care2 Causes
Loggers get the OK to kill Northern spotted owls
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Same thing that is going on in the rest of the world: greed.
Lots of false information in that article.
Explain please ?
Where to begin exactly. Its a standard timber cutting lease on federal property these are a regular occurence. The Northern Spotted Owl is threatened not endangered with over 10k identified breeding pairs so 80 individuals is not significant number. They are likely only mentioned because of a morose and useless piece of legislation requires a "study" just to cut some timber. Those study's are then used to populate the blogs of hacks with nothing better to do. Hence why this is a completely unsourced "article" written by a hack.
So what!? I don't care if there's a million breeding pairs of this bird, 80 birds is a big deal! And the Spotted Owl as a whole is listed as Threatened, the Northern subspecies looks to be more Vulnerable, which is still endangered to me.
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Seeing the article is unsourced and from such a flightly website I doubt its even true. Especially with such a specific number. They are going to take the time and cull specifically 80 specimens for no logical reason? Or do 80 live in the area of the lease? Environmental Wacko's need to pick their battles and get serious. Where do they get the number? Is it from the useless environmental reports they try to force on all projects just and bureaucratic fiat to try and regulate to death any and all progress? They are clearing timber not owl hunting. Its all hyperbole.
I wish the loggers could be relocated...
Despite what tschlander says, this is still a big deal, and I am disgusted by a lot of wildlife news I hear. Some people don't give two hoots about anything around them but money.
perhaps tschandler should try reading the article. It is not "unsourced", the links to the sources are in the story. Whether you want to accept those sources is up to you. Where do you get the figure of 10,000 breeding pairs from? The northern spotted owl has an estimated wild population of 3000 to 5000 breeding pairs, probably on the lower side of that range, and the species as a whole is in decline everywhere except probably Mexico ironically enough: 80 adult birds from one population is a big deal! The number of 80 in the article is actually "more than 80" - they are rounding it for ease of reading. The actual number allowed to be killed is 83, which is stated to be half of the total number of owls in the area. This doesn't mean the people involved are just going (or even allowed) to go shoot exactly 83 owls, it means this is the number allowed to be killed during the process, same as if permission was granted to kill up to 100 Cute Speckled Newts during construction of a highway: the workers couldn't go stomp directly on 100 newts, but 100 newts are allowed to be killed/de-homed by the construction process.