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Feds begin killing barred owls to help save spotted owl
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| Dec 21, 2013
| AP
Posted on 12/21/2013 4:47:51 AM PST by Innovative
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To: moovova
I have seen two just this past year in the neighborhood. Took a picture of one about 5 feet up on a branch.
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posted on
12/21/2013 7:14:36 AM PST
by
healy61
To: Innovative
The spotted owl isn’t “endangered” either.
Just another excuse to control growth and productivity.
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posted on
12/21/2013 7:37:01 AM PST
by
G Larry
To: txrefugee
In five years they will find out the rodent population is soaring because of reduced owl predation. Then they will hire more people to shoot the rodents.
This is right out of Mao’s economic planning book.
To: Innovative
Conservative business people have an opportunity in this story and the one about wind farms and eagles. About the owl - "The timber industry in the Northwest was reduced by 80% to save the spotted owl, but during that time there are now few owls than when 5,000 had jobs and the price of housing was lower, because good timber practices made good homes for owls, and people."
Then we turn to eagles killed by wind farms, "In to save the spotted owl the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Funds all stopped the lumber industry - but where are they today in an effort to save the eagle? Why is it that some animals or birds can be killed and nobody cares? But destroying jobs and raising the cost of housing is no problem for the well off environmental activists in San Francisco or Seattle?" TELL THESE STORIES AND SHAME THE PEOPLE who are ruining the American way of life.
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posted on
12/21/2013 7:46:00 AM PST
by
q_an_a
(the more laws the less justice)
To: Innovative
The Barred Owls just need to start donating money to the Democrats.
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posted on
12/21/2013 7:53:32 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: billhilly
That was the entire point of the spotted owl, destroy a thriving industry and replace it with Marxism.
Pray America is Waking
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posted on
12/21/2013 7:59:37 AM PST
by
bray
(The Republic of Texas 2022 is coming in Feb)
To: blueunicorn6
The Barred Owls just need to start donating money to the DemocratsThe Eagles need better lobbyist.
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posted on
12/21/2013 8:03:49 AM PST
by
hadaclueonce
(Because Brawndo's got electrolytes. Because Ethanol has Big Corn Lobby)
To: gorush
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posted on
12/21/2013 8:07:35 AM PST
by
moovova
To: moovova
We couldn't believe our luck when we found this site. It was perfect for the earth-sheltered home I wanted to build. That was 9 years ago now. Here's a shot from up on that hill seen in the first photo...
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posted on
12/21/2013 8:16:20 AM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
Can I move in?
Don’t worry...I would come locked, stocked and barreled!
:-)
Congrats on your great choices.
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posted on
12/21/2013 8:29:35 AM PST
by
moovova
To: moovova
Stay on the main path with your hands clearly visible. An appointment is highly recommended. :{)
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posted on
12/21/2013 8:33:26 AM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: JRandomFreeper; george76; Flycatcher
I remember the bumper sticker when this fiasco started in So OR, “Save a Logger, Eat an Owl.” There were a lot of them and a lot of loggers, now there’s few of each.
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posted on
12/21/2013 8:39:32 AM PST
by
jazusamo
([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
To: gorush
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posted on
12/21/2013 8:47:24 AM PST
by
moovova
To: Innovative
Get ready for an infestation of vermin like mice and rats, excess rabbits.
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posted on
12/21/2013 8:48:57 AM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: headstamp 2
Invasive from where, China? No, from the Eastern US. If fact, they breed viable hybrids. IOW, they're two races of the same species. The legal distinction by which spotted owls were listed as endangered was a scientific fraud in the first place.
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posted on
12/21/2013 8:52:36 AM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
To: JRandomFreeper
“Interfering with the natural order.... shame on them. Extinction is a natural process. It should be allowed to happen.”
Think of the havoc it wold cause to the EPA if the spotted owl became extinct. They’d have to find a whole new reason to shut down the NW timber industry again.
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posted on
12/21/2013 8:55:35 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
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To: Flycatcher; george76
Yep, when I first read about this I figured the enviro’s and animal activists would have a conniption fit, I was wrong.
This spotted owl thing, like George said, was about control and a way for the enviro-nazis to keep people off public lands. Enviros had gotten to the point they started to have some say in the BLM and USFS.
I can only relate to OR where many logging, USFS and BLM roads were closed by either dozing for permanent closure or gating the ones they used. Areas that had been used for years by hunters became accessible only on foot or horseback.
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posted on
12/21/2013 9:00:36 AM PST
by
jazusamo
([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
To: moovova
The woods behind my house are full of barred owls. Once a year or so the vermin population reaches a point where I see owls roosting in the backyard trees and nailing chipmunks, and mice during the daytime.
After clearing out the little critters they disappear until the menu has been replenished.
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posted on
12/21/2013 9:01:31 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
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To: jazusamo
That reminds me of a bumper sticker that I remember was popular in the 70s. The farmers in the Sacramento Valley were being pushed by some sort of stupid overregulation, and they put this on a bumper sticker:
BOYCOTT FARMERS. STOP EATING
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posted on
12/21/2013 9:04:14 AM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: Carry_Okie
Crazy. So they are basically trying to stop a natural evolution of a species.
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posted on
12/21/2013 9:04:39 AM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
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