Posted on 02/23/2011 1:38:31 PM PST by TheConservativeCitizen
Naw, here’s the best recipe for spotted owl: remove the breast from rest of bird and wrap with bacon. Cook until done on real charcoal fire-preferably mesquite. Let cool, remove bacon and eat(damn it’s good!) Throw spotted owl breast away(they taste like crap but impart such a great flavor into bacon!)
Figure about 16 spotted owl breasts per person...
...good hunting!
Yeah, I can see how a Barred Owl call would startle someone who has never heard them before. That first long “hoooo” when the owl is announcing their presence does sound like a big, loud ghost. I grew up with owls in my neighborhood, and whenever I heard the Bluejay police squawking up a storm, I knew a big owl was near. Beautiful birds, and adaptable, too. They didn’t need thousands of acres of old growth forest to survive. They grew big and fat in the middle of Montgomery eating the squirrels that ate our pecans.
Yep. They told us that the spotted owl need 200-year old timber to nest in. Really! Did you ever wonder where the spotted owl nested during the first 200 years?
Squirrels aren’t all they eat. Some in this area claim the barred owls are what keep the feral cat population low. There are even claims they take small dogs. Not sure I believe that, but my Dr. does. Once on my regular apt. he remarked my blood pressure was high, which wasn’t typical. I said I was worried about a four-mo/o puppy that had gone missing. He assured me a barred owl had eaten it. Not what I wanted to hear. Plus, I found the puppy—alive and VERY happy to see me—five days later.
Once, a long time, when I was the editor of a weekly Oregon newspaper, I did a story about some of the land set aside for the spotted owl near my town. I went right to the center of the spotted owl set-aside. It was a huge clearcut surrounded by dozens of square miles of second-growth Douglas fir. The local environmentalists were steamed, especially by the photos. It was just one of the many steps that led me to the conservativism I embrace today.
You know, I don’t miss the Emerald People’s Republic that much, except for my garden, which was spectacular.
Here in MI the current idol of the idle is the Karner Blue butterfly. They have kicked people out of a big chunks of National Forest (former recreation area). They’re going to cut thousands of trees, spray “alien” plants with stuff you and I couldn’t even possess and raise general havoc with the area. All to create more habitat for a tiny butterfly whose only distinction from a Melissa Blue Butterfly is a bent reproductive organ on the male.
Now wouldn’t you kinda think that this critter’s low population might be some of that survival of the FITTEST stuff. Like maybe they have a problem making “ends meet.
But then, that’s the way our government does best, preserving the worthless at the expense of the worker bees.
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EnvironMentalists were the largest contributing factor to the Rodeo-Chediski Forest fires in AZ in 2002. Those fires are what pushed me to be active in politics and to be an outspoken conservative.
Hmmmm maybe they have done some good here in America. They encourage people to speak the truth to counter their lies and to get involved.
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