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EnvironMENTALists
in Government Plan to Save the Spotted Owl by Killing Off Native
Barred
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*Yeah... Isn't that just like an environMENTAList? Euthanize the
competition<http://wn.com/Environmentalism__A_Cover_For_De-population_and_Eugenics>
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*Gov’t Announces New Way to Protect Spotted Owls: Kill Their Competition*
*July 1, 2011 by Jonathon M. Seidl - The
Blaze<http://www.theblaze.com/stories/govt-announces-new-way-to-protect-spotted-owls-kill-their-competition/>
*
The northern spotted owl is a beautiful bird. It’s also threatened under the
Endangered Species Act. And now, the government is taking drastic measures
to ensure it’s survival by advocating the “removal” of the bird’s major
competition, while also seemingly targeting loggers.
“Removal” of the birds is really just another way to say shooting the barred
owl, the spotted owl’s rival. And it’s part of a group of
recommendations<http://us.vocuspr.com/Newsroom/Query.aspx?SiteName=fws&Entity=PRAsset&SF_PRAsset_PRAssetID_EQ=127615&XSL=PressRelease&Cache=True>announced
by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help revitalize the
spotted owl population:
*Management of the encroaching barred owl *to reduce harm to spotted owls.
Most of the recovery actions the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has carried
out since finalizing the spotted owl’s 2008 recovery plan deal with the
barred owl threat. A major part of this is developing a proposal for
experimental removal of barred owls in certain areas to see what effect that
would have on spotted owls, and then to evaluate whether or not broad scale
removal should be considered. This portion of the 2008 plan was not
significantly revised.
<http://doctorbulldog.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/barred-owls-killed-by-environmentalists.jpg>The
Seattle Weekly
explains<http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/02/federal_plan_to_save_spotted_o.php>how
“removal” has worked in the past:
Though the USFWS policy hasn’t officially been released yet, *The Oregonian*
reports<http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/02/make_this_call_in_the_wild_sho.html>that
it’s likely to include a strategy to kill off between 1,200 and 1,500
barred owls from northern California through Oregon and Washington.
Killing off invasive species is a common
practice<http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118885526/abstract>in
wildlife management, but barred owls aren’t invasive–they’re native.
And
several environmental groups are arguing that killing them won’t help the
problem unless people are prepared to shoot the owls by the thousands every
single year.
One biologist estimates the cost of such a plan to be $1 million annually.
Plus, by seemingly all accounts, the barred owl is simply a stronger and
better-adapted species. It eats a wider variety of food and nests in a wider
variety of places than the spotted owl.
While the wisdom behind killing one species to save another is part of the
debate, there’s also controversy surrounding another aspect of the
recommendations — protecting the spotted owl’s habitat. But there’s just one
problem: that conflicts with local logging. Read more of this
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