Posted on 12/21/2013 4:47:51 AM PST by Innovative
An experiment to see if killing invasive barred owls will help the threatened northern spotted owl reverse its decline toward extinction is underway in the forests of Northern California.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday that specially trained biologists have shot 26 barred owls in a study area on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation northeast of Arcata, Calif.
The service is spending $3.5 million over six years to remove 3,600 barred owls from sites in Oregon, Washington and California.
It is not unusual to kill one species to help a threatened or endangered one. Cormorants and sea lions are regularly killed to help salmon.
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/johnny
The liberal plan to save themselves is to wipe out conservatives, just like the gov’t.
Sounds like 0bamacare.
despicable. along with allowing wind powered mix-masters to kill the American Symbol.
where is the leftist tree huggers on this??
no it is not about the tree hugging as much as being marxist.
To paraphrase someone who knows just a little about wildlife,
“It ain’t logical. Hey man, it just ain’t logical!
Add to it, Mamma Gump had it nailed.
“no it is not about the tree hugging as much as being marxist.”
And control...
Can you imagine the outcry if people would start to kill these same owls because they cut down the trees where they nest or something?
But if they kill one species in the name of saving another, even though there is NO evidence whatsoever that there is any correlation, that’s OK.
But I thought it was logging that was killing the spotted owl. That’s what they said when they decimated the timber industry.
The Fish & Wildlife Service also issues “take” permits allowing utilities to chop up golden and bald eagles without penalties.
Is this why Hussein bought all that ammo?
An experiment to see if killing invasive barred owls will help the threatened northern spotted owl reverse its decline toward extinction ...
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Wonder what they’d think about an experiment to see if killing invasive wolves would help the threatened livestock of ranchers reverse its decline in numbers due to wolf attacks.
“But I thought it was logging that was killing the spotted owl. That’s what they said when they decimated the timber industry.’
Well — it seems that was not the case...
“Major cutbacks in logging in old growth forest that spotted owls prefer as habitat have not turned around their population decline”,
That’s the problem when government gets involved, they don’t do things based on evidence or logic.
/johnny
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Horrors! It’s DISCRIMINATION!
We have in this country a population decline of white people because there are so many illegal immigrants coming in. Illegal immigrants are an INVASIVE SPECIES!
Nature is like the free market, let it function freely and it will sort itself out.
Sorta like cash for clunkers.
Destroying logging, farming, ranching, fishing .. jobs and local businesses - is the United Nations Agenda 21 goal.
Logging had nothing to do with the spotted owl situation. Rather Barred owls are the single biggest threat to spotted owl survival.
The Feds will waste another $3.5 million . While veterans get their pension cuts.
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