WA: Judge halts logging in owl habitat

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/1/07 | Donna Gordon Blankinship - ap

[SatinDoll]

The state of Washington actually fought against listing the spotted owl as endangered. They knew better. Their own wildlife biologists had been observing spotted owls for almost a dozen years and fully well knew that the birds nested and reared young in second growth timber. The old growth mantra was so much poo-poo. This instance is just more of the same - barnyard manure.

[One_who_hopes_to_know]

[traviskicks]

Does this species really exist? 1 2




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[norton]

"Of course I would probably go to prison longer than any child molester or mass murderer who has ever lived."

And everybody knows what happens to owl killers behind bars.

[norton]

Just wondering what would happen if Weyerhaeuser announced they wanted to clear the forest to grow corn for ethanol?

[sionnsar]

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[IslandJeff]

These folks wouldn’t have let us leave the Horn of Africa because we’d be interfering with Woolly Mammoth habitat.

Species go extinct. It happens. Really.

[17th Miss Regt]

There was a recent (last 30 days or so) story about the decline of the spotted owls. It seems they were being attacked and consumed by another predatory owl species and that caused a significant decline in numbers. I’ll bet Weyerhauser bred the predators just to find and kill the spotted owls. Those black-hearted b******s!

[Snardius]

It really shows the Endangered Species Act still has some teeth in it,

Actually it shows there are still some dumba$$ judges in Washington State who are more than willing to prove they are dumba$$es.

[NurdlyPeon]

If I were the property owner, I would be tempted to go out and shoot every dammed one of them(in spite of their cuteness). Of course I would probably go to prison longer than any child molester or mass murderer who has ever lived.

Now now now, you can't just go around shooting judges, temping as it might me.

[Bobsvainbabblings]

Don’t feel sorry for Weyerhaeuser, it is common knowledge that they were privately backing the environmentalist when this first came up in the late 80s. The ban was only on publicly held lands, state and federal. It did not include private lands in which Weyerhaeuser has the largest holding in Washington State.

The small logging and mill companies were dependent on government timber sales. Those are the ones the ban hurt the most and went out of business leaving Weyerhaeuser and a few other big companies that owned their own timber to be the only game in town and to price their products accordingly.

The donations to the Sierra Club and others were a write off and were more than made up for by the higher prices they were able to charge for their products.

They have had 17 years to log with little or no effect by the ban. When this all shakes out, it will have little or no adverse effect on them.