spotted owl

  • Northwest Forest Plan Revision Advocates More Logging

    George Wuerthner

    The Forest Service is proposing to amend the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP). The NWFP was created to protect old-growth forests and wildlife.The new plan proposals would weaken the protection of public forests. The NWFP was implemented in response to excessive logging ravaging many acres of public patrimony with massive clearcuts that turned public forests…

  • Wildfire May Benefit Spotted Owls

    George Wuerthner

    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 biologist with the…

  • Threatened spotted owl in decline due to barred owl

    Ralph Maughan

    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 also lives…

  • Supreme Court rebuffs ranchers on Mexican Spotted Owl

    Ralph Maughan

    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.

  • Timber law becomes vast entitlement for some states

    Ralph Maughan

    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

  • Spotted-owl recovery gets another look from Obama administration

    Ralph Maughan

    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…

  • New Battle of Logging vs. Spotted Owls Looms in West

    Ralph Maughan

    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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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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