Agreed. Glad to hear States can take care correctly.
Now we need to de-list the “Northern” Spotted Owl, a fictional construct manufactured by environazis because the “California” Spotted Owl (the same critter, just to the South) is doing just fine.
I agree on the Spotted Owl fiasco and also question the thing from the start. I know for a fact they live quite well in second growth, at least they were in So OR in the 80’s.
The newest proposal is to list the Pacific Fisher (a weasel like creature.) The enviros are no dummies, In the west, between the listing of the spotted owl, wolf and the fisher (proposed,) Their mating and early rearing prtections will leave approximately three weeks out of the year that anyone could log in the forests. Obviously, no one can maintain the hundred thousand dollar equipment that takes, costs of permitting and labor that such would take.
There will soon be no logging in the forests of the PNW and N. CA. With USFS Chief Tidwell’s announcement that the National Forest Service is returning to a “let it burn” policy, we may yet look like a WWI battlefield.